Taco Scheltema
Illustration — Portrait of the artist Gerrit van der Pals (1742–1839) Taco Scheltema, or Take Pieters Scheltema (16 August 1766 – 7 September 1837) was a Dutch portrait painter.
Also recorded as Taco Scheltema (I) · Taco Scheltema I · Taco I Scheltema · Taco, I Scheltema
Taco Scheltema
Taco Scheltema · Museum Boijmans van Beuningen · Public domain
- Died
- 1837 · Velp.
- Nationality
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Occupation
- painter · draftsperson
- Fields
- portrait
- Education
- Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
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Illustration — Portrait of the artist Gerrit van der Pals (1742–1839) Taco Scheltema, or Take Pieters Scheltema (16 August 1766 – 7 September 1837) was a Dutch portrait painter.
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He was born in Harlingen as the son of an innkeeper named Pieter Scheltes Scheltema (1702–1771). After a short time in Amsterdam, studying drawing and painting with the portrait and landscape painter Pleun Piera (1734–1799), he qualified for admission to the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Upon graduation, he travelled through Saxony and Holland; eventually settling in Rotterdam in 1794, where he had been commissioned to paint the founders and administrators of the Batavian Society for Experimental Philosophy. He ultimately established his studio in Arnhem and, throughout his career, mostly focused on family paintings. In 1799 he married Jacomina van Nijmegen (1768–1825), with whom he had five children. He died in 1837 in Arnhem. His descendants included several other artists; notably his grandson, Taco Jan Scheltema (1831–1867), who is represented in the Louvre, as well as Jan Hendrik Scheltema (1861–1941) and Leendert Scheltema (1876–1966), who specialized in landscapes.
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Taco Scheltema is recorded as a citizen of Kingdom of the Netherlands. Recorded with the occupation draftsperson. Classed in the genre portrait.
Augusta Eleonora Carolina, countess von Hohenlohe Langenburg (1775-1813), second wife of Dirk van Hogendorp (1761-1822)
Taco Scheltema · Museum Rotterdam
Wybo Fijnje possibly by Taco Scheltema I
Taco Scheltema · Herkomst: coll. A.C. Andreae Walland te Middelburg (1960)
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1760
Taco Scheltema was born on 16 August 1760.
1837
Taco Scheltema died on 7 September 1837.
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Harlingen.
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Bibliography printed in the source article · 3
- A. Staring, "Een vergeten Portrettist: Taco Scheltema", in: Oud-Holland, #54 (1937), pgs. 193–213.
- Nederland's Patriciaat, #27 (1941), pgs. 218–288.
- J. H. Brouwer (ed.), Encyclopedie van Friesland, Elsevier 1958
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