van Huysum

{{short description|Dutch surname, painting family}}

File:Michiel van Huysum - Abrikozen en pruimen - Apricots and plums.jpg

Van Huysum (also spelled van Huijsum) is a surname from the Netherlands, meaning "of/from Huizum," a district of Leiden, South Holland.

Four generations of van Huysums were visual artists of the Dutch Golden Age of the 17th and 18th centuries. Jan van Huysum is the most important figure of the family. "Some degree of confusion exists between works of Justus I and II, and Jacob and Jan van Huysum, to whom a vast number of works by others have also been wrongly attributed."{{Cite book |last=Muller |first=Sheila D. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZPhLoy0FICMC |title=Dutch Art: An Encyclopedia |date=2013-07-04 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-49574-9 |page=424 |language=en}}

{{Commons category|Huysum family of painters|van Huysum family of painters}}

• Jan van Huysum the Elder (d. 1664), "painter, schoolmaster, government appointee"{{Cite web |title=Discover painter, schoolmaster, government employee Jan van Huysum (I) |url=https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/367202 |access-date=2022-10-12 |website=rkd.nl |language=en}}
• Caspar van Huysum (b. 1648), painter and printmaker in Leeuwarden{{Cite web |title=HUYSUM, Dutch family of artists |url=https://www.wga.hu/html_m/h/huysum/index.html |access-date=2022-10-12 |website=www.wga.hu}}{{Cite web |title=Portret van Artus Georg Velten, Caspar van Huysum, 1657 - 1682 |url=https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/RP-P-1878-A-1077 |access-date=2022-10-12 |website=Rijksmuseum |language=en}}
• Justus van Huysum (1659–1718), he married twice and had 12 children in all, five with his first wife Margarietje Schouten (1660–1689){{Cite web |title=Margarietje Schouten, alias: Margrita Rus {{!}} Margrietje Scholton |url=https://www.vondel.humanities.uva.nl/ecartico/persons/10656 |access-date=2022-10-12 |website=www.vondel.humanities.uva.nl}} and seven with his second Elisabeth Sanderus (1663–1710){{Cite web |title=Elisabeth Sanderus |url=https://www.vondel.humanities.uva.nl/ecartico/persons/10657 |access-date=2022-10-12 |website=www.vondel.humanities.uva.nl}}
• Jan van Huysum (1682–1749), oldest of Justus' children with Schouten{{Cite book |last1=Segal |first1=Sam |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rmgCEAAAQBAJ&dq=justus+van+huysum+second+wife&pg=PA399 |title=Dutch and Flemish Flower Pieces (2 vols in case): Paintings, Drawings and Prints up to the Nineteenth Century |last2=Alen |first2=Klara |date=2020-09-25 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-42745-7 |pages=508 |language=en}}
• Francina Margaretha van Huysum, (1707–1789), Jan's daughter with his wife Elisabeth Takens (1680–1751){{Cite web |title=Elisabeth Takens |url=https://www.vondel.humanities.uva.nl/ecartico/persons/9735 |access-date=2022-10-12 |website=www.vondel.humanities.uva.nl}}
• Justus van Huysum the Younger (1684–1706), Justus' son by Schouten
• Jacob van Huysum (1688–1740), Justus' son by Schouten
• Maria van Huysum (1696–after 1760), painter and drafter, Justus' daughter by second wife Elisabeth Sanderus{{Cite web |title=Discover draftsperson Maria van Huysum |url=https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/441038 |access-date=2022-10-12 |website=rkd.nl |language=en}}
• Josua van Huysum (1699–1728), painter in other genres, Justus' son by second wife Sanderus
• Michiel van Huysum (1703–1777), painter of fruit and flower still life paintings, and Arcadian landscapes,{{Cite web |title=Michiel van Huysum - Gallerease |url=https://gallerease.com/en/artists/michiel-van-huysum__584450a4ad0e |access-date=2022-10-12 |website=gallerease.com |language=en}} Justus' son by second wife Sanderus, may have studied with his older half-brother Jan