Alexander Hugo Bakker Korff artwork • painting • for sale The young seamstress
Alexander Hugo Bakker Korff
Den Haag 1824-1882 Leiden
1824-1882
The young seamstress
oil on panel 18.5 x 14.4 cm, signed l.l. and painted ca. 1864
This painting is for sale.
Price: € 15,000
Provenance: mevr. Willebeek le Mair, Amsterdam; veiling Frederik Muller & Cie., Amsterdam, 8 juli 1941, lotnr. 30; Kunsthandel A. Staal, Amsterdam; veiling Christie's, Amsterdam, 24 april 2002, lotnr. 143; Gebr. Douwes Fine Art, Amsterdam, 6 jan. 2004; coll. echtpaar F.A.R. Barge-Dreesmann, Brasschaat, België, daarna door vererving in bezit gekomen van de vorige eigenaar; Simonis & Buunk Kunsthandel, Ede; part. bezit Nederland.
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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