Frits Jansen artwork • painting • previously for sale The pianist
Frits Jansen
Den Haag 1856-1928 Voorburg
1856-1928
The pianist
oil on canvas 66.0 x 50.2 cm, signed u.l.
This painting was previously for sale.
Painter from The Hague, trained at the Hague Academy and then in Paris and London. He specialized in painting genre scenes, portraits and landscapes. As a teacher, and from 1887 as deputy director of the Hague Academy, he had a great deal of influence on a young generation of painters in The Hague. Queen Wilhelmina was also one of his students.
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