Frederik Lambertus Geerling artwork • watercolour • drawing • previously for sale A portrait of princess Wilhelmina at the age of thirteen
Frederik Lambertus Geerling
Maastricht 1815-1894 Den Haag
1815-1894
A portrait of princess Wilhelmina at the age of thirteen
pencil and watercolour on paper 39.5 x 24.0 cm, signed c.r. and on protecting cardboard on the reverse and dated 1893
This work on paper was previously for sale.
Provenance: kunsthandel W.M. Stam, Den Haag.
The strongly Orange-minded Frederik Lambertus Geerling made a career in the Dutch navy. From 1874 to 1877 he was commander of the navy and chief of the Navy Department in the Dutch East Indies, and was appointed vice admiral in 1875. From 1883 to 1893 he was Secretary of the Navy. Geerling had a talent for drawing and probably practiced painting as a hobby. After his retirement in 1877 he must have taken drawing and painting more seriously.
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