Bart van Hove artwork • painting • previously for sale Skaters by the 'Grenadierspoort', The Hague
Bart van Hove
Den Haag 1790-1880
1790-1880
Skaters by the 'Grenadierspoort', The Hague
oil on panel 47.4 x 38.1 cm, signed l.r. and dated 1823
This painting was previously for sale.
Literature: Michiel van der Mast, Tiny de Liefde-van Brakel, 'Tussen Fantasie en Werkelijkheid. De stadsgezichten van B.J. van Hove (1790-1880)', Den Haag/Venlo 2012, pag. 87, pag. 88, afb. 90 (in kleur); Sebastiaan Cobelens, Michiel Plomp, Pieter Roelofs, ‘Echte winters. Het winterlandschap in de negentiende eeuw’, Bussum 2015, afb. 28 (in kleur).
Exhibited: Den Haag, Haags Historisch Museum, 'Fantasie en Werkelijkheid. De stadsgezichten van Bartholomeus Johannes van Hove', 28 jan.-29 april 2012; Haarlem, Teylers Museum, ‘Echte winters. Het winterlandschap in de negentiende eeuw’, 2015.
A pupil of The Hague decoration painter J.H.A.A. Breckenheijmer, Van Hove later attended the town’s Academy of Drawing. In his time he was a leading painter of romantic townscapes in which fantasy played a dominant role. He also worked as a stage and set painter and in 1829 became the decorator of the Koninklijke Nederlandsche Schouwburg (former court theatre) in The Hague. Van Hove played a major role in 19th century painting through his many pupils, among whom were J. Bosboom, S. Verveer and H.J. Weissenbruch.
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