VAN DER KAA Jan
THE TOWN HALL OF LEIDEN, THE NETHERLANDS
Oil on panel: 49.5 x 42 cm / 19.5 x 16.5 in
Signed with a monogram and dated '1840' lower left
Painter of mainly interiors with figures animated with sunlight or daylight, town views and portraits; watercolorist, etcher and lithographer.
Jan van der Kaa was born in Dordrecht on November 1, 1813 and died in Rotterdam on November 23, 1832. He was a pupil of Pieter Hofman and Carel Frederik Bendorp.
In 1839 he visited Belgium and Germany. In 1848 he animated an evening landscape by Cornelis Gerrit Verburgh.
Period:
Dordrecht 1813 - Rotterdam 1877
Dutch School
Exhibitions:
Amsterdam - Dordrecht - Rotterdam
Literature:
P. Scheen, "Lexicon Nederlandse beeldende kunstenaars; 1750-1880", 's Gravnehage 1981, p. 257.