Hendrik Jacobus Scholten

Hendrik Jacobus Scholten (11 July 1824, Amsterdam – 29 May 1907, Heemstede), was a 19th-century painter from the Netherlands.

According to the RKD he was a pupil of Petrus Franciscus Greive and Lambertus Johannes Hansen.

[1] In 1852 he became a member of the Royal Academy of Art in Amsterdam, and was a member of the Amsterdam art societies Arti et Amicitiae, Kunstbevorderend Genootschap V.W., and Vereeniging Sint Lucas.

[1] He was also a member of art societies in other towns, such as the Pulchri studio in the Hague, the Schilder- en teekengenootschap Kunstliefde in Utrecht, and Kunst zij ons doel in Haarlem.

[1] In that capacity he wrote a catalog of the museum's collection, that was published in 1904.