Jean Augustin Daiwaille (1786–1850)

• Was a Dutch portrait painter and lithographer.
• Daiwaille was born in Cologne, Holy Roman Empire.
• He went to Amsterdam, as a young man, where he studied under Adriaan de Lelie.
• He was director of the Rijksakademie from 1820 to 1826.
• After that time, he resided at Rotterdam, where he was very successful in painting portraits, and where he died in 1850.
• He was an early exponent of lithography during the 1820s, overseeing the installation of a lithographic press at the new Koninklijke Academie.
• He established his own lithographic business in 1826, producing reproductions of his own paintings.
• His daughter, Elise Thérèse, married one of his pupils, the painter Barend Cornelis Koekkoek.
• His son, Alexander Joseph Daiwaille, also became a painter.
• The displayed painting is a crop from Jean Augustin Daiwaille, Self-portrait, 1810-1850.
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