Jacob Ritsema artwork • painting • previously for sale Landscape near Haarlem
Jacob Ritsema
Haarlem 1869-1943 Laren (N.H.)
1869-1943
Landscape near Haarlem
oil on canvas 25.3 x 60.3 cm, signed l.r. and on the stretcher
This painting was previously for sale.
Jacob Coenraad Ritsema, brother of Jacoba Johanna (Coba) Ritsema, was a widely appreciated landscape painter in his day. The young Ritsema was apprenticed to P.J.C. Gabriel and he followed his teacher on his study trips across the country. Ritsema did not embellish nature or add compositional details: he saw and painted the immediate beauty of swampy green polders, the imposing gray cloudy skies and the white drawbridges that stood out against them. In his paintings he is very good at conveying the simplicity, silence and tranquility of the landscape.
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