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Portrait of Jan Nieuwenhuyzen
Adriaan de Lelie1780 - 1806
Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Jan Nieuwenhuyzen was a bookseller, printer and Mennonite preacher. Together with a few kindred spirits, in 1784 he founded the Maatschappij tot Nut van ’t Algemeen (Society for Public Advancement). The society strove to raise the spiritual and moral level of society, mainly by contributing to the improvement of general education.
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- Title: Portrait of Jan Nieuwenhuyzen
- Creator: Lelie, Adriaan de
- Date Created: 1780 - 1806
- Physical Dimensions: doek
- Subject Keywords: Maatschappij tot Nut van 't Algemeen, Nieuwenhuyzen, Jan
- Rights: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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