Andreas Bernardus de Quertenmont

Andreas Bernardus de Quertenmont (1 February 1750, in Antwerp – 3 June 1835, in Antwerp) was a Flemish painter, copyist, engraver and etch artist. He was also an art educator and administrator as he held positions as a professor and director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. He was born in the Austrian Netherlands in the Holy Roman Empire.

Life De Quertenmont studied with the Antwerp engraver Philippus Keminckx while studying at the same time drawing at the Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp.

He won the first prize for live model drawing at the Antwerp Academy in 1771. The same year he became master in the local Guild of Saint Luke.

De Quertenmont had numerous pupils, including Adriaan de Lelie and Frans Balthazar Solvyns. He painted a portrait of Gregorius Thiels abbot of Averbode.

De Quertenmont produced a number of etchings, including portraits after paintings by Rubens and van Dyck as well as after his own drawings.