Reinier Vinkeles
Draughtsman, watercolorist, engraver, printmaker and art collector from the Northern Netherlands
About Reinier Vinkeles
Lived 1741 – 1816 (aged 75). Reinier Vinkeles was a Dutch painter, printmaker, engraver, copper engraver, draftsperson and reproductive printmaker.
Reinier Vinkeles (1741–1816) was an 18th-century painter and engraver from the Northern Netherlands (Dutch Republic), who was the teacher of several talented artists.
Biography Vinkeles was born in 1741, in Amsterdam. He studied for some ten years with Jan Punt and joined the Amsterdam Stadstekenacademie (City Drawing School) in 1762.
In 1765 he travelled to Brabant with Jurriaan Andriessen and Izaäk Schmidt. He became a director of the Stadstekenacademie]and was a member of the artist's club Pax Artium Nutrix. He became the teacher of Jacob Ernst Marcus, Jacobus Millies, his son Abraham Vinkeles, his brother Harmanus Vinkeles (1745-1804), his son Johannes Vinkeles, and Daniël Vrijdag.
Vinkeles died in 1816, in Amsterdam.
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draughtsman, watercolorist, engraver, printmaker and art collector from the Northern Netherlands
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Reinier Vinkeles was born on 12 January 1741 in Amsterdam.
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Reinier Vinkeles died on 30 January 1816 in Amsterdam.
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Reinier Vinkeles was a painter, printmaker, engraver, copper engraver, draftsperson and reproductive printmaker.
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Reinier Vinkeles was Dutch.
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