Jan George Bertelman

He studied with Daniel Bracht Huyser (1769), a blind organist who worked at the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam.

In addition to his musical studies, Bertelman provided for his mother and himself through working other jobs.

His pupils included John Bree, Richard Hol and Hermina Maria Dijk.

Bertelman was an honorary member of four organizations: the Royal Academy of Arts, the Society for Utilities General, the Society for the Promotion of Musical Arts, and the Academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome.

His son, Johannes Jacobus Bertelman, was a painter and later became the co-founder of the Museum Gouda.