Hendrik Dirk Kruseman van Elten (Alkmaar, November 14, 1829 - Paris, July 12, 1904) was a Dutch painter.
Hendrik Dirk Kruseman van Elten, son of the Alkmaar notary and real estate agent Daniel Nicolaas van Elten and Elizabeth Frederica Kruseman (1805-1860), was trained by the Haarlem painter Cornelis Lieste (1817-1861). In the same city he also received instruction from Jan Reekers at the city drawing school from 1845 to 1849. He developed into a landscape painter
Between 1853 and 1861 he lived alternately in Amsterdam and Oosterbeek. He traveled to Germany, Switzerland and Tyrol. He also spent some time in Brussels, where he was a member of the "Société d'Artistes Belges". In 1865 he settled in New York, where he became known as an etcher. Around 1870 he was back in Europe for a short time on a trip through Belgium, Germany, France and England. In 1897, after a 32-year stay in America, he finally returned to Europe. He settled in Paris, the city where he died in 1904.
He mainly made landscapes, which he executed in oil paint, etching or lithography. The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam owns nine lithographs by Kruseman van Elten. They are images of historical landscapes (including the Hunebed van Valthe depicted here). Marinus Heijl (1836-1931) was his student.
For his services, he was appointed knight in the Order of the Dutch Lion and the municipality of Alkmaar named the Kruseman van Eltenweg after him in 1937.
His daughter Elisabeth Frederica Kruseman van Elten, born in New York in 1876, became a painter, just like her father.
