Hendrik van Borssum Buisman (1873, Wieringen – 1951, Haarlem), was a 20th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands who became the keeper of the print room or art cabinet at Teylers Museum in 1913.
[1] He joined the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague at the age of 19, where he was a pupil of Le Comte together with Gerrit David Gratama.
[2] In Antwerp they were pupils of Albrecht De Vriendt and Henri Heymans, and their friends were Toon Dupuis, Isidoor Opsomer, Walter Vaes and H.J.
[2] Upon completion of their studies they returned to The Hague, where Hen Buisman added his grandmother's name to his own and created his bust of Speenhoff with which he won a golden medal in Munich.
[2] In 1912 Gratama moved to Haarlem to become director of the Frans Hals Museum there and a year later his friend Van Borssum Buisman succeeded John F. Hulk as Casteleyn and keeper of the art collection at Teylers Museum, where he lived in the Fundatiehuis and where his sons Jan Hendrik and Garrelt were born.