Pieter Florentius Nicolaas Jacobus Arntzenius (9 June 1864-16 Feb 1925); Dutch painter, water-colourist, illustrator and printmaker. He is considered a representative of the younger generation of the Hague School. Born in Surabaya on the island of Java where his father served in the Royal Dutch East Indies Army. In 1875, at the age of 11, he was sent to the Netherlands to Amsterdam to live with his aunt and uncle to complete his education. In 1882 he became a student of Frederik Nachtweh, under whose supervision he gained admission to the Rijksacademie van Beeldende Kunsten. During his time at the Rijksacademie, from 1883-1888, his teachers included August Allebé and Barend Wijnveld, and amongst his fellow students were Isaac Israëls, George Breitner, Willem Witsen and Jan Veth. After his studies in Amsterdam he spent another 2 years at the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerp, studying under Charles Verlat. Back in Amsterdam, Arntzenius became a member of the artist's societies Arte et Amicitiae (1890) and St. Lucas (1891), and he had a studio at the Sarphatistraat... Around the same time his former fellow students Isaac Israëls and George Breitner left The Hague for Amsterdam to be a part of the capital's more vibrant artistic climate. In The Hague the established painters of the first generation of the Hague School dominated artistic life. In 1900 he married Lide Doorman... had 4 daught Though Arntzenius isn't considered to be a relevant artist nowadays, he was appreciated in his own day. He won prizes at the exhibitions of Munich, Venice, Pittsburgh and Brussels and his works sold well during his lifetime. His friends in The Hague included Willem Maris, Willem Bastiaan Tholen, Bernard Blommers and Herman Johannes v/d Weele. In 1910 he opened a studio and started taking in students. He mostly painted commissioned portraits; he continued to do until he died of tuberculosis in 1925, at the age of 60. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floris_Arntzeniu undefined

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