Moritz Calisch

Self portrait

Moritz Calisch (1819, Amsterdam 1870, Amsterdam), was a 19th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands.

Biography

According to the RKD he studied at the Royal Academy of Amsterdam under Jan Adam Kruseman and became a member of Arti et Amicitiae, where he later served as vice-chairman.[1] In 1834 he won 150 guilders from the Drawing society of Rotterdam and a double silver medal for two paintings; A nursery visit in the family of a fisherman and Louis Bonaparte offering assistance during a flood.[2] He is known for portraits of the Jewish elite of Amsterdam, but also for historical genre works in the romantic style of the 19th century.[1] He was himself Jewish and three of his friends took the initiative to create a monument in his name.

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