Fine Art

The Drawing Gallery of the Felix Meritis Society — History & Facts

Founded in 1777, the Amsterdam society called Felix Meritis (‘Happy through Merit’) grew into the cultural centre for the upper middle class. It had five depart-ments: commerce, natural science, music, literature and drawing. The drawing gallery could accommodate about sixty artists for life drawing classes in both daylight and lamplight.

De Lelie, seated on the podium, looks out at us.

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Interior scene of The Art Gallery of Jan Gildemeester Jansz, oil on panel by Adriaan de Lelie

The Art Gallery of Jan Gildemeester Jansz

Adriaan de Lelie

Portrait of Jonkheer Gysbert Carel Rutger van Brienen van Ramerus and family, oil on canvas by Adriaan de Lelie

Jonkheer Gysbert Carel Rutger Reinier van Brienen van Ramerus(1771-1821), with his Wife and four of their Children

Adriaan de Lelie

Interior of the sculpture gallery with plaster casts, oil on canvas by Adriaan de Lelie

The Sculpture Gallery of the Felix Meritis Society

Adriaan de Lelie

Portrait of Cornelis Sebille Roos, oil on canvas by Adriaan de Lelie

Cornelis Sebille Roos (1754-1820), Amsterdam Art Dealer and Keeper of the Nationale Konst-Gallery in Huis ten Bosch, The Hague

Adriaan de Lelie

Portrait of Jan Nieuwenhuyzen, oil on canvas by Adriaan de Lelie

Portrait of Jan Nieuwenhuyzen

Adriaan de Lelie

Morning Visit, oil on panel by Adriaan de Lelie, depicting a greengrocer and maidservant in a kitchen.

Morning Visit

Adriaan de Lelie

Mother and two children in warm light, still life, oil on panel by Adriaan de Lelie

Mother and Two Children with Still Life

Adriaan de Lelie

Kitchen scene with a woman baking pancakes, oil on panel by Adriaan de Lelie

Woman Baking Pancakes

Adriaan de Lelie

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Nighthawks by Edward Hopper, oil painting of a diner scene at night with four figures.

Nighthawks

Edward Hopper

Interior scene with an artist and model, oil on canvas by Johannes Vermeer

The Art of Painting

Johannes Vermeer

Interior scene with two women and a letter, oil on canvas by Johannes Vermeer

The Love Letter

Johannes Vermeer

Interior scene of The Bedroom, oil on canvas by Vincent van Gogh

The Bedroom

Vincent van Gogh

Barmaid behind a counter in A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, oil on canvas by Édouard Manet

A Bar at the Folies-Bergère

Édouard Manet

Lady At The Virginal With A Gentleman, oil painting by Johannes Vermeer

Lady At The Virginal With A Gentleman, ‘the Music Lesson’

Johannes Vermeer