Cornelis Apostool

Anonymous, undated portrait of Apostool.

Cornelis Apostool a Dutch amateur painter, and engraver in aquatint, was born at Amsterdam in 1762. He visited England, but returned home in 1796, and was in 1808 appointed director of the Amsterdam Museum, which office he held until his death in 1844. He engraved a portrait of Lavinia Fenton, afterwards Duchess of Bolton, after Hogarth, as well as landscapes for the 'Beauties of the Dutch School,' 'Select Views in the South of France,' 'Travels through the Maritime Alps,' and Daniell's 'Views of Hindostan.'

References

This article incorporates text from the article "APOSTOOL, Cornelis" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.

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Name	Apostool, Cornelis
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Date of birth	1762
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Date of death	1844
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