Adriaan de Lelie (1755 – 1820)

• Was a Dutch painter.
• De Lelie was a pupil of A. Peeters.
• He made copies of many portraits by Rubens and Van Dyck in Düsseldorf, and also of historical pictures by Italian and Dutch masters.
• On the advice of Professor Camper, he established himself in Amsterdam.

• He painted a great number of portraits and cabinet pictures.

• His pictures are highly esteemed in the Netherlands and Germany.

• His pupils were Jean Augustin Daiwaille, Jan Adriaan Antonie de Lelie, François Montauban van Swijndregt, Pièrre Recco, Izaak Riewert Schmidt, and Johannes Ziesenis.

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