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Allebé, August [Augustus]
(b Amsterdam, 19 April 1838; d Amsterdam, 10 Jan 1927). Dutch painter and lithographer. He attended evening classes in drawing at the Felix Meritis School in Amsterdam and on 27 May 1854 sat the entrance exam at the city’s Koninklijke Academie. Lodewijk Royer, the director, gave him lessons in figure drawing and taught him about Greek art. As a student at the Academie he won several prizes. In 1855 he took up lithography under the influence of the French lithographer Adolphe Mouilleron (1820–81), whom he had seen at work in Amsterdam in 1854. He wanted to become a professional lithographer, and from 1858 to 1859 he was in Paris in order to learn the art at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts under Mouilleron’s direction. He made copies after paintings in the Louvre and the Musée du Luxembourg and visited Barbizon. In Paris he met Fantin-Latour and Courbet, but his special admiration was reserved for Ingres, Delacroix and Decamps. In the 1850s and 1860s Allebé frequently sought inspiration in the countryside, staying at Laren in the Gooi area, Oosterbeek and the Brabant village of Dongen. In 1860 he returned to the Felix Meritis School to study painting and also worked in the studio of P. F. Greive (1811–72).
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- Allebé, August
- Netherlands, the, §III, 6(ii): Painting and graphic arts, c 1850–c 1900
- Netherlands, the, §XV: Art education
- pupils
- Leck, Bart van der
- Arntzenius, Floris
- Derkinderen, Antoon (Johannes)
- Haverman, Hendrik Johannes
- Looy, Jacobus van
- Marius, G(erharda) H(ermina)
- Nibbrig, F(erdinand) Hart
- Tholen, Willem Bastiaan
- Verkade, Jan
- Veth, Jan Pieter
- Witsen, Willem (Arnold)
- works
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