Andreas Bernardus de Quertenmont
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Andreas Bernardus de Quertenmont (1 February 1750, in Antwerp – 3 June 1835, in Antwerp) was a Flemish painter, copyist, engraver and etch artist. He was also an art educator and administrator as he held positions as a professor and director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp.[1] He was born in the Austrian Netherlands in the Holy Roman Empire.
De Quertenmont studied with the Antwerp engraver Philippus Keminckx while studying at the same time drawing at the Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp.[2]
He won the first prize for live model drawing at the Antwerp Academy in 1771. The same year he became master in the local Guild of Saint Luke.[1] He subsequently became a professor at the academy. He was appointed director of the academy in 1778 and held that position until the academy was closed down by the French occupiers in October 1794. He then opened his own drawing workshop which was very successful.[3] He received in 1790 a membership diploma of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.[3][4]
De Quertenmont had numerous pupils, including Adriaan de Lelie and Frans Balthazar Solvyns.[1]
