(b Groningen, 20 Jan 1816; d Amsterdam, 8 June 1885). Dutch photographer. Originally a painter, he established a photographic studio in Amsterdam in 1851. However, his interests lay in areas other than the portrait photography that was practised in most studios. He became skilled in stereoscopic photography, which was becoming increasingly popular. He created one of the first Dutch stereoscopic images, a portrait of a woman with a stereoscope, made according to Daguerre’s process. He also created numerous stereoscopic images on glass using albumen. In the second half of the 1850s he published the series Views of Holland and Stereoscopic Views in the Netherlands (The Hague, Rijksdienst Beeld. Kst, and Leiden, Rijksuniv.). This series contains some of the earliest photographs of Amsterdam, Leiden, Haarlem, The Hague and Rotterdam. Stereoscopic images of groups and situations such as those made by the London Stereoscopic Company were rare in the Netherlands: Oosterhuis only occasionally ventured to make imitations of British still-lifes. His stereographs of actual events are exceptional: for example the unveiling of a new monument on the Dam in Amsterdam on a rainy day in 1856 and a series of photographs attributed to him of the launch of Nadar’s balloon on a site next to the Paleis voor Volksvlijt (the Dutch Crystal Palace) in 1865. These photographs display a unique spontaneity.