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Adriaan Lubbers

Adriaan Lubbers (Amsterdam 1892-1954 New York) was a self-taught artist with an independent spirit. He left for America at a young age, where he had all kinds of jobs. He also continued to draw. Wh...

Pulchri Studio 175 jaar

The 175th anniversary exhibition of Pulchri Studios in The Hague consists of three thematic parts: past, present and future. Of course, the Old Masters from the past from the period of the Hague Sc...

Jan Toorop

Jan (Johannes Theodorus) Toorop (Poerworedjo 1858 – The Hague 1928) was one of the most important Dutch visual artists from the period 1880-1910. Wherever he went he had a great influence and was m...

Wilde eend van Dandini - Lyklema Fine Art

Wild Duck from Dandini

Cesare Dandini was a painter during the Florentine dynasty in the late Middle Ages. This painting 'Two wild ducks hanging after hunting' was commissioned by Cardinal Jean-Charles de Medici for his ...

Hamdorff Laren

Jan Hamdorff opened the luxury hotel Hamdorff in Laren at number 16 in Laren in 1901. Hamdorff did everything he could to attract artists by organizing exhibitions for artists. Artists from the Goo...

Anton Mauve

Anton Mauve was a watercolourist, painter and draftsman and was born on September 18, 1838 in Zaandam and died in May 1888 in Arnhem. Mauve was the son of a Mennonite minister. He wanted to become ...

George Hendrik Breitner

Breitner (Rotterdam 1857-1923) was the painter of Amsterdam City Life. Painter of dynamics and melancholy. Many Amsterdammers will consider him to be the painter par excellence who managed to captu...

De Romantiek (in Nederland) - Lyklema Fine Art

Romanticism (in the Netherrlands)

Romanticism is a movement within Western painting between the end of the eighteenth century and the mid-nineteenth century with an emphasis on imagination and subjective expression. There is a lot ...