Wouterus Verschuur
Amsterdam 1812-1874 Vorden
A grey in a stable, oil on panel 10,1 x 8,6 cm., signed l.l.
813426/Coll.I cv
Price band: between 10.000 and 15.000 euro
In his time Wouterus Verschuur was an acclaimed painter of horses. From his teacher, the livestock artist P.G. van Os, he learnt to capture their physique and movement to perfection. As a true-born romanticist he was also interested in their character, thereby painting powerful carthorses in their stable, thoroughbred saddled horses during an afternoon ride or harnessed horses in action. Verschuur was also a clever painter of dogs and these appear in most of his paintings. The painter lived in Haarlem between 1858 and 1868, where he taught Anton Mauve. He also instructed his son Wouterus Jr, who like his father specialised in painting horses.