Alexander Hugo Bakker Korff artwork • painting • previously for sale The secondhand dealer
Alexander Hugo Bakker Korff
Den Haag 1824-1882 Leiden
1824-1882
The secondhand dealer
oil on panel 18.4 x 14.2 cm, signed l.c. and dated '67
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: coll. Jean Cardon, Brussel; veiling Galerie J. et A. Leroy Frères, Brussel, nalatenschap Madame Jean Cardon, 24-25 april 1912, lotnr. 2.
Literature: vgl.: G.H. Marius, 'Dutch Painters of the 19th Century', Woodbridge 1988, afb. pag. 113.
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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