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Jan Jacob Spohler: 
Born:  1811 - Nederhorst den Berg, Holland
Died:   1866 - Amsterdam, Holland
Known for:  Winter landscape, figure paintings
 
Jan Jacob Spohler (1811 in Nederhorst den Berg - 1866 in Amsterdam), was a 19th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands.

According to the RKD, he was a pupil of Jan Willem Pieneman and became a member of member the Koninklijke Academie in Amsterdam in 1845. 

He is known for winter landscapes and became the father of the painters Jacob Jan Coenraad Spohler and Johannes Franciscus Spohler.[1]

He worked in Amsterdam from 1830-1839 (where he later returned and lived from 1861 onwards), Haarlem 1840-1843, Brussels 1844-1847 (and briefly again in 1853), The Hague 1848-1849, Leiden 1850-1860, and Rotterdam 1854-1855.

In addition to his sons he taught the painter Willem Vester.

Source:
"Jan Jacob Spohler", Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Jacob_Spohler (Accessed 6/3/2013)

Biography from Galerie Bassenge, Berlin
 
Jan Jacob Spohler was born in 1811 in Nederhorst den Berg, Holland. Spohler learned from the history painter Jan Willem Pieneman. Inspired by the Dutch landscape painting of the 17th century, Spohler specialized in landscape painting with figure staffage showing idyllic, warm summers or barren, snowy winters.