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Alexander Hugo Bakker Korff
Den Haag 1824-1882 Leiden
Daily activities, pen on paper 30 x 44 cm., signed c.r. and dated 1873

Annotatie: 'Marchande Bric a Brac; le Buffet; un léger somme; Et de ci et de la ......; sprotjes (sardines fumées); Confidence'.
Literature: W. Laanstra, J. Woldring, 'Hollandse Romantiek. Schilders van het dagelijkse leven in de 19e eeuw', Alkmaar 2001, afb. in kleur pag. 7

Alexander Hugo Bakker Korff lived and worked in The Hague. At first he depicted historical and biblical scenes, but around 1859 began drawing and painting small-scale genre works in an extremely precise style. These were mainly domestic scenes with old spinsters, for which his two unmarried sisters stood model. His paintings have a humorous, sometimes ironic, undertone, which their carefully chosen titles bring out. Among his pupils was J.H. van Rossum du Chattel.