January Ravenswaay

Background

He was born in the town of Hilversum.

Career

Ravenswaay was the son of a cotton mill owner in Hilversum. He studied drawing with Jordanus Hoorn in Amstersfoort, before following lessons from Pieter Gerardus van Os.

Achievements

• He won an honorable mention for a landscape in a competition at Felix Meritis in 1818.

Membership

He traveled in Belgium, Germany and Switzerland before becoming a member of the Royal Academy of Art in Amsterdam. In 1832, January he became a member of the artist society Arti Sacrum in Rotterdam.