Antonie Franciscus Dona artwork • painting • previously for sale A summer landscape
Antonie Franciscus Dona
Den Haag 1802-1877
1802-1877
A summer landscape
oil on panel 25.6 x 36.6 cm, signed l.r. and dated '50
This painting was previously for sale.
Antonie Franciscus Dona is one of The Hague's first romantic painters. Not much is known about his life. He was born in 1802 and studied drawing at the academy in The Hague, where he later became a teacher himself. Like contemporaries such as Willem Bodeman, B.C. Koekkoek and Adrianus van der Koogh, he painted moody, accurately detailed landscapes, but also excelled in depicting livestock. He was a teacher of, among others, the cattle painter Willem Karel Nakken.
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