Alexander Hugo Bakker Korff artwork • watercolour • drawing • previously for sale Daily activities
Alexander Hugo Bakker Korff
Den Haag 1824-1882 Leiden
1824-1882
Daily activities
pen on paper 30.0 x 44.0 cm, signed c.r. and dated 1873
This work on paper was previously for sale.
Literature: W. Laanstra, J. Woldring, 'Hollandse Romantiek. Schilders van het dagelijkse leven in de 19e eeuw', Alkmaar 2001, afb. in kleur pag. 7
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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