Willem de Famars Testas

Willem de Famars Testas studied at Royal Academy of Art. Training under Jacobus Everhardus Josephus van den Berg and Émile Prisse d'Avennes is recorded. The recorded working language is French and Dutch. Places of work recorded in the authority are The Hague, Utrecht and Khedivate of Egypt. Works named in the authority record are The Courtyard of a house in Cairo and The well and sycamore in Ezbekieh Square, Cairo. Work by Willem de Famars Testas is recorded in the collections of Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, Rijksmuseum, Teylers Museum, Dordrechts Museum and National Museum Paleis het Loo.

• Name — Willem de Famars Testas • Born — 1834 • Birthplace — Utrecht • Died — 1896 • Place of death — Arnhem • Field — Painter, draughtsman, etcher and illustrator • Training — Jacobus Everhardus Josephus van den Berg; Teeken-akademie, The Hague (1851–56) • Movement — Orientalist

According to the RKD, he learned to paint from Jacobus Everhardus Josephus van den Berg and studied at the Akademie van beeldende kunsten in the Hague during the years 1853–1854. He travelled to Egypt in 1858-1860 and was in Brussels 1872–1885. He became a member of the artist society Schilder- en teekengenootschap Kunstliefde in Utrecht. His daughter Marie Madelaine de Famars Testas also became a painter.

• Illustration — The Well and Sycamore in Ezbekieh Square, Cairo, c. 1858–60, collection Teylers Museum • Illustration — Egyptian relief sculpture: two cranes, drawing, c. 1844–96, collection Rijksmuseum • Illustration — The Courtyard of a house in Cairo, c. 1868–81, oil on canvas, collection Rijksmuseum