Along the River “La Meuse”

Kuytenbrouwer Martinus Antonius (Martinus) was born in Amersfoort, The Netherlands on 21 November in 1821.

He was a student of his father Kuytenbrouwer Martinus sr. and Eugène Isabey (French Romantic Painter) in Paris.

Martinus was a painter of landscapes with animals. He also drew, etched and lithographed. Painter at the court of Napoleon III. He worked with Nicolaas Johanes Wilhelmus de Roode (Dutch Painter of portraits) in 1864.

Martinus worked in The Hague until 1845, in 1847 he left for Paris.

From 1849 -1860 he lived and worked in Brussels and went back to Paris, Fontainebleau.

Exhibited in The Hague from 1845 – 1864.

Portret by Kuytenbrouwer Martinus Antonius is in Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

A pen drawing of a painter was recently purchased by Rijksmuseum, originally was it in Brussels Museum.

He died in Paris on 12 November 1897.