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Willem Thansartist • painterRotterdam 1816-1858 Geel (België)

biography of Willem Thans

Willem Thans, self-taught, was born in 1816 in Rotterdam and probably moved to Belgium in the 1940s, where he lived and worked in Brussels for years. He specialized in figures and genre performances by candlelight and torchlight, which were admired by contemporaries. There were few figure painters in his time who mastered the art of what was called clair-obscur painting.


for salepaintings by Willem Thans


Willem Thans | Sleeping woman by candle light, oil on panel, 25.6 x 20.2 cm, signed l.r. and dated 1845

Willem Thans

painting • for sale

Sleeping woman by candle light

Willem Thans | Woman with a candle, oil on panel, 29.7 x 22.4 cm, signed l.c. on the table edge and dated 1850

Willem Thans

painting • for sale

Woman with a candle


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