Baruch Lopes Leão de Laguna

Baruch Lopes Leão de Laguna (16 February 1864, Amsterdam – 19 November 1943, Auschwitz) was a Dutch painter of Portuguese-Jewish ancestry; associated with the Laren School.

His talent was noticed and, at the age of fourteen, he began training as a decorative painter at the Quellinusschool.

He then transferred to the Dutch State Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied with August Allebé, among others.

[2] He focused on portraits; notably those of Prime Minister Hendrikus Colijn, Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis and Henri Deterding.

In 1934, a major exhibition was held at the Hotel Hamdorff in Laren; a notable meeting place for artists.