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Ahazueros Jacobus 'Co' Breman
Zwolle 1865-1938 Laren (N.H.)
Hay-cocks, Blaricum, oil on canvas 71,5 x 150,6 cm., signed l.l. and on the reverse and dated 1922

Annotatie: op spieraam: 'Co Breman, Als het koren rijp is'
Provenance: Kunsthandel Leffelaar, Haarlem, inv.nr. 757.
Literature: tent.cat. Laren, Kunstzaal Hotel Hamdorff, 'Eere Tentoonstelling Schilderijen en Teekeningen Co Breman', 1935, cat.nr. 17; Cees Kamerbeek, Jarmila Kamerbeek, Marjan de Man, Onno Maurer, 'Jongkind tot Van der Leck: de passie van een collectioneur. Collectie Kamerbeek', Amersfoort 2007, pag. 160, cat.nr. 54 (met afb. in kleur pag. 161).

Co Breman trained at the Academy in Brussels. In 1897 he moved to Blaricum and then to Laren, where he became one of the painters of the Laren School. Breman painted carefully composed landscapes and farms, bathed in sunlight, and colourful interiors and figures. Light at a certain point of the day or season particularly captured his interest. This was often expressed in words through the titles he gave his paintings. Along with Ferdinand Hart Nibbrig, he was one of the first Dutch painters to employ the pointillist technique.