Woman portrait

About this artwork.

Jacobus Hendricus Maris (1837 - 1899) started studying with a painter from The Hague at the age of twelve and soon took lessons at the Hague Academy. He came from a family of painters: his younger brother and eldest brother were both artists. The three Maris brothers are well-known artists of the Hague School: a movement of like-minded Dutch painters who roughly worked in The Hague between 1860 and 1900, or who were otherwise connected with the residential city. Jacob had one theme that he would occupy himself with for the rest of his life and in which he would give the most spontaneous and daring interpretation of reality: the landscape. He is said to have left for Paris in the years 1864/1865, where he must have concentrated mainly on painting Italian folk types that were loved and sold by the Parisian art trade to England and the United States. At the time, experts praised all his landscapes and village views by the water, and it was in Paris that he definitively chose for a career as a landscape painter. From the eighties he became popular in the Netherlands and from then on he belonged to the Netherlands' most important and most earning modern-day artists. He died in 1899, at the height of his fame.

It is not known exactly in which year Jacob Maris painted the Woman's Portrait. Given his career as a landscape painter from 1865, it seems that this portrait was painted in his early years.

Facts & Figures.

• Artist(s)
  Jacob Maris

• Year of creation
  Unknown

• Dimensions (in cm)
  31x31

• Collection
  Town Hall Collection

• Technic
  Oil paint on wood