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Conradijn Cunaeus

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Conradijn Cunaeus
Portrait by Hendrik Hollander [de] in the Centraal Museum of Utrecht, 1849
Born1 November 1828
Died5 September 1895
NationalityDutch
Signature
Hunting Companions, 1860, in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Elephas maximus, print, 1849, in the collections of the University of Amsterdam

Conradijn Cunaeus (1828–1895) was a Dutch animalier painter and lithographer.

Life

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Cunaeus was born on 1 November 1828 in Dendermonde, which at that time was in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.[1] He studied at the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam from 1844 to 1849,[2][1] and also under Nicolaas Pieneman. He lived from 1854 to 1868 in Koudekerk aan den Rijn, from 1870 to 1888 in Amsterdam, and thereafter in the former municipality of Nieuwer-Amstel on the outskirts of Amsterdam. He died there on 5 September 1895.[1]

Work

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He was principally a painter of animals, particularly of dogs;[3]: 194  he also painted landscapes with figures, hunting and mountain scenes, interiors and genre paintings.[4] He worked in oils and in watercolour, and made drawings and lithographs.[1][3]: 194 

References

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  1. ^ a b c d RKD Artists: Conradijn Cunaeus. The Hague: RKD — Netherlands Institute for Art History. Accessed January 2025.
  2. ^ Pieter A. Scheen (1969). Conradijn Cunaeus (in Dutch). In: Lexicon Nederlandse beeldende kunstenaars 1750-1950, volume 1, A-L. 's Gravenhage: Scheen.
  3. ^ a b Ulrich Thieme (editor) (1913). Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Kunstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, Achter Band, Coutan–Delattre (in German). Leipzig: E. A. Seemann.
  4. ^ Cunaeus, Conradyn or Conradijn. Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00045226. (subscription required).