Hendrik Gerrit Ten Cate

Place: Amsterdam

Born: 1803

Death: 1856

Biography:

Hendrik Gerrit ten Cate was a Dutch painter born in Amsterdam in 1803 and died in Amsterdam in 1856. He was a pupil of Georg Pieter Westenberg and worked for much of his career in Amsterdam. He is known for his watercolors, etchings, and drawings, especially of city views and town scenes that he sketched while traveling around the country. He became a member of the Amsterdam painters collective Felix Meritis and won a gold medal for a painting of a church interior in 1847. He was awarded the Leopold order of Belgium in 1865, and in 1878 he was invited with Jozef Israëls to advise the Dutch Ministry of Public Affairs on the plans for the Rijksmuseum.