Henri Linssen
{{short description|Dutch painter}}
Henri Linssen (Roermond, 28 October 1805 – Roermond, 8 April 1869) was a Dutch painter.
Biography
Henri Linssen was born in Roermond, Limburg, on 28 October 1805.{{cite web |title=Henri Linssen |url=https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/record?query=henri+linssen&start=0 |publisher=RKD |access-date=7 June 2022}} He was active in Antwerp from 1824 to 1828. In 1830 he moved to Paris, where he studied,{{cite book |last1=Scheen |first1=Pieter A. |title=Lexicon Nederlandse beeldende kunstenaars, 1750-1880 |date=1981 |publisher='s-Gravenhage : Scheen |page=317}}{{cite book |last1=Scheen |first1=Pieter A. |title=Lexicon Nederlandse beeldende kunstenaars, 1750-1950 (volume 2) |date=1969 |publisher='s-Gravenhage : Scheen |page=714}} and was active until 1843. Between 1834 and 1840 he exhibited at the Salon.{{cite book |last1=Thieme |first1=Ulrich |last2=Becker |first2=Felix |title=Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler : von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart (vol. 23) |date=1929 |publisher=Seemann |location=Leipzig |page=258}} In 1843 he returned to Roermond and was named director of the Stastekenschool. He retired in 1861.{{cite book |last1=Schiphorst |first1=Lidwien |title='Een toevloed van werk, van wijd en zijd'. (De beginjaren van het Atelier Cuypers/Stolzenberg, Roermond 1852-ca.1865) |date=2004 |publisher=Nijmegen |pages=23–30}} Linssen died in Roermond on 8 April 1869.
Works (selection)
Image:Henri Linssen(1).jpg|Portrait of Baroness Mathilde van Wevelinghoven, 1830
Image:Henri Linssen3.jpg|Portrait of Schiefer, 1860
Image:Henri Linssen5.jpg|Portrait of Catherine Elise Josephine Robertine de Bellefroid, 1852
Image:Henri Linssen6.jpg|Portrait of Josephine Marie Louise Walland, 1850
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