SPOHLER, family of painters

      In this folder I included paintings of Jan Jacob Spohler and his two sons.
      Jan Jacob Spohler (1811, Nederhorst den Berg – 1866, Amsterdam) was  a pupil of Jan Willem Pieneman and became a member of member the Koninklijke Academie in Amsterdam in 1845.  He is known for winter landscapes and became the father of the painters Jacob Jan Coenraad Spohler (1837 - 1923) and Johannes Franciscus Spohler  (1853-1894). He worked in Amsterdam from 1830-1839 (where he later returned and lived from 1861 onwards), Haarlem 1840-1843, Brussels 1844-1847 (and briefly again in 1853), The Hague 1848-1849, Leiden 1850-1860, and Rotterdam 1854-1855. In addition to his sons he taught the painter Willem Vester.