Alexander Hugo Bakker Korff artwork • painting • previously for sale Reading the Bible: Jesaja Chapter III:12
Alexander Hugo Bakker Korff
Den Haag 1824-1882 Leiden
1824-1882
Reading the Bible: Jesaja Chapter III:12
oil on panel 13.5 x 11.5 cm, signed l.r. and dated '76
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: coll. familie Willem Ruys, Rotterdam; erven Mees-Ruys, Rotterdam.
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.
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