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A Dutch portrait painter, especially of aristocratic persons, Jan Portielje studied under Valentijn Bing (1812-95) in Amsterdam
and later with Jan Braet von Uberveldt (1807-94). In 1849 he went to
the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerp, where he took
lessons with J.-L. Dyckmans (1811-88).
After this period of training he
spent two years in Paris and traveled in France and Germany. Settling
in Brussels, he made a name for himself as a portrait painter,
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