Jan Weissenbruch (1822,The Hague – 1880,The Hague) was a 19th-century Dutch painter.
According to the RKD he was the cousin ofJan Hendrik Weissenbruch and the older brother of the painters Isaac and Frederik Hendrik and like them studied at theRoyal Academy of Art in The Hague.[1] In 1846 he spent a year at the Koninklijke Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. He was a pupil ofIsaac Cornelis Elink Sterk,Georg Christiaan Heinrich Hessler,Cornelis Steffelaar,Salomon Verveer, andAnthonie Waldorp.[1] He is known as one of the founders of thePulchri Studio and made watercolors, etchings and woodcuts as well as paintings, mostly of cityscapes and church interiors.[1] In 1857 he won his first golden medal at an exhibition in the Hague.[1] In the late 1860s he began to restore paintings, possibly because he suffered fromagoraphobia, which hindered him in the last decade of his life.[1]Johannes Huygens was his pupil.[1]
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