Jacob Abelsartist • painter • watercolourist • draughtsmanAmsterdam 1803-1866 Abcoude

biography of 'Jacobus' Theodorus Abels

Portrait of artist, painter, watercolourist and draughtsman 'Jacobus' Theodorus Abels

Portrait of 'Jacobus' Theodorus Abels

Abels initially made summer landscapes but increasingly focused on painting river and city views by moonlight. These 'nocturnes' were part of the romantic admiration of his contemporaries for the mysterious, embodied in the atmosphere of night and moonlight. The lunar views of the 17th-century painter Aert van der Neer were his example. His father-in-law P.G. van Os and brother-in-law P.F. van Os sometimes painted the animals in his landscapes.

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for salepaintings, watercolours and drawings by Jacob Abels

Jacob Abels | Moonlit river landscape near a city, oil on panel, 28.8 x 39.1 cm

Jacob Abels

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Moonlit river landscape near a city

Jacob Abels | A moonlit town harbour, oil on panel, 29.7 x 23.6 cm

Jacob Abels

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A moonlit town harbour

Jacob Abels | A moonlit townview, oil on panel, 7.8 x 7.0 cm

Jacob Abels

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A moonlit townview

Jacob Abels | Moonlit shipyard, watercolour on paper, 10.4 x 14.9 cm, signed on the reverse with monogram and dated 1856 on the reverse

Jacob Abels

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Moonlit shipyard, 1856

previously for salepaintings, watercolours and drawings by Jacob Abels

Jacob Abels | A harbor in a town by moonlight, oil on canvas, 33.4 x 40.4 cm

Jacob Abels

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A harbor in a town by moonlight

Jacob Abels | Fishing at dawn and A moonlit harbour (together in one frame), oil on panel, 9.6 x 11.6 cm, signed one signed l.l. with monogram

Jacob Abels

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Fishing at dawn and A moonlit harbour (together in one frame)

Jacob Abels | Fishermen at dusk, oil on panel, 24.5 x 33.4 cm, signed l.r. with initials

Jacob Abels

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Fishermen at dusk

Jacob Abels | A moonlit river landscape, oil on panel, 9.2 x 7.7 cm, signed l.l. with initials

Jacob Abels

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A moonlit river landscape

Jacob Abels | Moored sailing vessels in a moonlit landscape, oil on panel, 9.2 x 7.7 cm, signed signed with initials l.r.

Jacob Abels

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Moored sailing vessels in a moonlit landscape

Jacob Abels | A river landscape at dawn, watercolour on paper, 11.0 x 14.0 cm

Jacob Abels

watercolour • drawing • previously for sale

A river landscape at dawn

Jacob Abels | Figures at daybreak, pen and brush in brown and black ink on paper, 23.0 x 32.5 cm, signed l.r. and dated 1849

Jacob Abels

watercolour • drawing • previously for sale

Figures at daybreak, 1849

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