Alexander Ver Huell
Dutch, 1822-1897
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Alexander Willem Maurits Carel Ver Huell, also: Verhuell or VerHuell was a Dutch draftsman and writer. He was the son of Quirijn Maurits Rudolph Ver Huell.
He went to study law in Leiden in 1840 and obtained his doctorate there on 25 April 1848, after which he went to live in Arnhem. As a draftsman he made a name for himself by publishing a number of collections, humorous sketches and the illustrations of Klikspaan, under the meaningful, but no less misread pseudonym O. Veralby. In 1872, on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the capture of Den Briel, he presented the municipality of Brielle with a large number of historical etchings from the period of the Eighty Years' War.
In 1897 he bequeathed his entire property to the municipality of Arnhem, thus laying the foundation for the collection of the Museum of Modern Art Arnhem.
