Arnoldus Johannes Eymer (1803, Amsterdam – 1863, Haarlem), was a painter, draftsman, lithographer and watercolourist from the Northern Netherlands.
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Biography
editAccording to the RKD he was born in Amsterdam, where he first learned and practised the broker trade.[1] In his spare time he took up painting until 1834, when he decided to concentrate on painting.[1] Eymer was a pupil of Cornelis Steffelaar and worked with Jan van Ravenswaay and later became the father of the painter L.J. Eymer.[1] He made a grand tour from 1835 to 1836 to Bad Bentheim and the Harz Mountains in Germany, where he produced landscape paintings.[1] After his tour Eymer moved to Haarlem, where he lived until 1863 and where his works are in the collections of the Frans Hals Museum and the Teylers Museum.
