Hobbe Smith artwork • painting • previously for sale The housemaids
Hobbe Smith
Witmarsum 1862-1942 Amsterdam
1862-1942
The housemaids
oil on canvas 59.5 x 38.9 cm, signed l.r. and dated '99
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: coll. Koningin Emma (1858-1934), Paleis Soestdijk, Appt. 112, inv.nr. 1 en Groep I, inv.nr. 403, daarna door vererving in bezit gekomen van koningin Juliana; nalatenschap H.K.H. Prinses Juliana (1909-2004), Koningin der Nederlanden van 1948 tot 1980.
Exhibited: Witmarsum, Ekspedysje Wytmarsum in de Doopsgezinde kerk, 'Hobbe Smith thuisgebracht', 15 sept.-7 okt. 2018.
Hobbe Smith was an all-round impressionist who worked on a lithography in Amsterdam when his drawing talent was discovered. Thanks to a wealthy patron and a scolarship of Queen Wilhelmina he received an education at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and thereafter at the Tekenacademie in Antwerp, where he was taught by the painter Charles Verlat. Smith’s oeuvre is very diverse and he has shown to be adequate in painting landscapes, townscapes, ships, nudes and still lifes.
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