Hendrik Johannes 'J.H.' Weissenbruch
Den Haag 1824-1903
Windmills in a polder landscape, oil on canvas 57,2 x 83,3 cm., signed l.l.
1111990/Coll.III cv
Price band: between 100.000 and 500.000 euro
H.J. Weissenbruch is considered one of the most gifted painters of the Hague School. He chiefly painted landscapes on the outskirts of The Hague and the polder land around Boskoop and Gouda. His great strength lay in portraying typical Dutch light – sometimes bright, sometimes diffuse and hazy. He was also fascinated by skies. ‘Sky and light are the great conjurors’, he once said. ‘Both grey rainy skies as well as clear cloudy skies on a summer’s day. Painters can never look too much at skies.’ Weissenbruch gave painting lessons to Victor Bauffe and Theophile de Bock.