Jacob Abels artwork • painting • previously for sale Fishing at dawn and A moonlit harbour (together in one frame)
Jacob Abels
Amsterdam 1803-1866 Abcoude
1803-1866
Fishing at dawn and A moonlit harbour (together in one frame)
oil on panel 9.6 x 11.6 cm, signed one signed l.l. with monogram
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: kunsthandel Nigel Stacy-Marks Ltd., Perth, Australië; part. bezit Groot-Brittannië.
Abels initially made summer landscapes but increasingly focused on painting river and city views by moonlight. These 'nocturnes' were part of the romantic admiration of his contemporaries for the mysterious, embodied in the atmosphere of night and moonlight. The lunar views of the 17th-century painter Aert van der Neer were his example. His father-in-law P.G. van Os and brother-in-law P.F. van Os sometimes painted the animals in his landscapes.
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