Cornelis Samuel Stortenbeker artwork • painting • previously for sale Nesting swallows
Cornelis Samuel Stortenbeker
Den Haag 1838-1885
1838-1885
Nesting swallows
oil on canvas 46.6 x 34.7 cm, signed l.l. with initials
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: coll. N.J. Mouthaan, Zeist.
The Hague painter Cornelis Samuel Stortenbeker is best known for his paintings of living and dead birds. He was a pupil of his older brother, the cattle painter Pieter Stortenbeker (1828-1898), and the portrait and genre painter Christoffel Bisschop (1828-1904). Taught at the Academy voor Beeldende Kunst in The Hague and was a member of the society 'Pulchri Studio'.
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