Hobbe Smith artwork • watercolour • drawing • previously for sale Schepen on the IJ
Hobbe Smith
Witmarsum 1862-1942 Amsterdam
1862-1942
Schepen on the IJ
watercolour on paper 13.5 x 17.0 cm, signed l.r. and on the reverse
This work on paper was previously for sale.
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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