Leo jansen artist biography
Leo Jensen - Florence Griswold Museum.
Leo Jansen
Dutch artist (–)
Leo Jansen (30 April , The Hague – 20 December ) was a Dutch artist known for his portraits.[1][2]
Childhood and education
Born in the Netherlands, moved to the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) when he was ten.
Leo jansen artist biography
There in the tropics, he began his craft by sketching bronze-skinned Indonesian girls for leisure. He returned to the Netherlands to study at the Academy of Art, to refine his growing mastery of the female figures.
Like most continental artists, he gravitated first to Paris and quickly established himself as a portraitist of considerable talent.
In , he arrived in New York.
Leo jansen prints
Because of the softness and light he infused his portraits, he was chosen by several companies to do commemorative plates. Jansen is, perhaps, best known throughout the United States and Europe for his mother's day plates and puppies plate series.
Notable works
Many of the rich and famous (such as Raquel Welch, Willian Holden, Donald Sutherland,