Dutch painter (b. 1580, Antwerpen, d. 1666, Haarlem).   Related Paintings of HALS, Frans :. | The Meagre Company (detail) wg | The Fisher Boy | St Luke wt | Officers and Sergeants of the St George Civic Guard Company | Feyntje van Steenkiste |
Related Artists:
Armand Palliere
painted Pedro II of Brazil, aged 4 in 1830
Jan Adam Kruseman
Petrus Augustus de Genestet (P.A. de Genestet) (Amsterdam, November 21, 1829 - Rozendaal, July 2, 1861) was a Dutch poet and a theologian. Petrus Augustus de Genestet lost both of his parents at a very young age; after that he lived with his uncle, the Dutch painter Jan Adam Kruseman. He studied at the Amsterdamse Atheneum and the Seminarium der Remonstrantse Broederschap to become a preacher. He became minister in March of 1852 at the Genestetkerk (Genestetchurch) that was named after him, in Delft. In the same year he got married to Henriette Bienfait in Bloemendaal. They had two children. In 1859, he lost both his wife and oldest child died of tubercolosis, and because of his poor health he had to quit working as a minister. He moved to Amsterdam, but spent most of his summers in Bloemendaal. Two years later, in 1861, he died in Rozendaal.
Hills, Laura Coombs
American Miniaturist, 1859-1952