Willem de Famars Testas
Noted for Orientalist paintings
Willem de Famars Testas, was a 19th-century Dutch painter, draughtsman, etcher and illustrator noted for his Orientalist paintings and drawings. According to the RKD, he learned to paint from Jacobus Everhardus Josephus van den Berg and studied at the Akademie van beeldende kunsten in the Hague during the years 1853-1854. He travelled to Egypt in 1858-1860 and was in Brussels 1872-1885. He became a member of the artist society Schilder- en teekengenootschap Kunstliefde in Utrecht. His daughter Marie Madelaine de Famars Testas also became a painter.
Relationship Network
Master student
- Willem Roelofs Master
Fellow student
Parent child
- Hendrik Hondius the Elder Parent
Artworks by this artist
- De verovering van Toemoelit tijdens de expeditie van Samalangan, 26 augustus 1877 1883
- Egyptian dancer in a tent, with musicians and spectators 1868
- Coach 1876
- Staande Egyptenaar met gebedskrans 1862
- The Art Scholar Henri Hymans 1885
- The Well And Sycamore In Ezbekieh Square, Cairo
- Gezicht op de tempelruïnes te Philae bij Aswan 1859
- Turkse ruiter in een stad 1863
- Hutje onder boom te Kaïro 1858
- The Courtyard of a house in Cairo 1868 - 1881
- Gezicht vanaf een terras over Brussel, in avondschemering 1885
- Het monumentale hek van Vreedenhoff te Nieuwersluis aan de Vecht 1886
- Louis Philippe Albert d’Orleans, bij een opgraving in Egypte 1860
- Boeket rozen en pelargonium 1878