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Elchanon Verveer artwork • watercolour • drawing • previously for sale Gathering wood in the snow

Verveer E.L.  | 'Elchanon' Leonardus Verveer, Gathering wood in the snow, pen and ink and watercolour on paper 52.9 x 37.5 cm, signed l.r.

Elchanon Verveer

Gathering wood in the snow
pen and ink and watercolour on paper 52.9 x 37.5 cm, signed l.r.

This work on paper was previously for sale.

Provenance: Koninklijke Verzamelingen; nalatenschap H.K.H. Prinses Juliana (1909-2004), Koningin der Nederlanden van 1948 tot 1980.

Elchanon Verveer lived and worked in The Hague, where he started his artistic career as a wood engraver. In 1845, however, he decided to take painting lessons at the Hague Academy, where he was taught by his brother Samuel and H.F.C. ten Cate. Verveer mainly painted genre scenes related to the hard life of fishermen, a pre-eminently 19th-century theme. Initially, artists painted 'innocent' scenes such as busy fisherwomen, interior scenes, and the fleet at sea or on the beach. Later, charged images arose, such as the waiting fisherwoman, uncertain about her husband's fate.


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