Paul Joseph Gabriël

Paul Joseph Gabriël (11 July 1784 – 31 December 1833) was a Dutch painter and sculptor.

Portrait of Gabriël by Woutherus Mol, 1818, now in the Rijksmuseum

Cenotaph of Jan Hendrik van Kinsbergen in the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam

He was born at Amsterdam, Dutch Republic, where he learned sculpture from his father and Canova, and devoted himself principally to that branch of art; but he at first practised miniature painting, and in his twentieth year proceeded to Paris specially to improve himself therein. In 1820 he was made a member of the Institute at Amsterdam, and director of the Royal Academy there. He died at Amsterdam, aged 49.

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "GABRIEL, Paulus Joseph". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.