David de la Marartist • painterAmsterdam 1832-1898 Hilversum

David de la Mar studied at the Academy in Amsterdam and completed his training as a painter in Paris at the Académie des Beaux-Arts and with the genre painter A.A.E. Hébert. De la Mar lived and worked in Amsterdam. Here he met Anton Mauve, from whom he received advice and with whom he went to the Gooi to paint. De la Mar mainly painted landscapes and scenes (interior and exterior) from the lives of farmers and fishermen, often in a clear palette and in a style related to that of the Hague School. De la Mar was a member of Arti et Amicitiae in Amsterdam.