Alexander Hugo Bakker Korff artwork • watercolour • drawing • previously for sale Three interior drawings
Alexander Hugo Bakker Korff
Den Haag 1824-1882 Leiden
1824-1882
Three interior drawings
pen and ink on paper 29.1 x 41.2 cm, signed l.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. 11.
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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