Adolf Jebens
Nationality: German
Date of birth: 19 March 1819
Place of birth: Elbing
Date of death: 8 May 1888
Place of death: Berlin
Category: artist
Date of birth: 19 March 1819
Place of birth: Elbing
Date of death: 8 May 1888
Place of death: Berlin
Category: artist
Identity:
He studied art in Berlin, Paris (he was a student of Paul Delaroche) and Rome. He became a painter of portraits, genre and historical subjects.
Life:
In 1848 he was a teacher of painting at the School of the Society for the Advancement of the Arts in Saint Petersburg. He painted a Portrait of Major G. W. Whistler, 1848, now in The Hunterian. Later he settled in Berlin.
Bibliography:
Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (cat.no. 28). 'Adolf Jebens', Wikipedia.
