Dutch painter

Rotterdam 1705 – 1798 Rotterdam 

 

Versatile painter of history paintings, portraits, genre scene, arcadian landscapes, miniatures and of ceiling and wallpaper paintings.

 

Pupil of his father Elias van Nijmegen (Nijmegen 1667 – 1755 Rotterdam), who also painted history subjects and ceiling and wall decorations, and of Jacob de Wit (Amsterdam 1695 – 1754 Amsterdam), who is best-known as an interior decorator for his grisaille overdoor and ceiling paintings.

 

Dionys married in 1733, the couple had two sons, Elias (1734 – 1801) and Gerard (1735 – 1808), who was a painter of Romantic landscapes.

 

Our Dionys joined the Rotterdam Painter’s Guild of Saint Luke in 1743.

 

In 1755, at his father’s death, Dionys took over his company of painted wall hangings. Dionys’ eldest son, Elias, assisted his father and continued the studio after his father’s death.

 

Dionys’ wife passed away in 1757. Dionys died 41 years after her at the age of 93. Johannes Immerzeel in the three volumes written in Dutch of “The Lives and Works of Dutch and Flemish Painters, Sculptors, Engravers and Architects from the start of the 15th until the middle of the 19th century” (1842 - 1843) states that our painter “had the rare privilege of still being in the unharmed possession of the sense of sight in his old age, so that, at the age of 90, he could still paint a portrait”.