Jan Braet von Uberfeldt artwork • painting • for sale The love letter
Jan Braet von Uberfeldt
Langerak 1807-1894 Doetinchem
1807-1894
The love letter
oil on canvas 32.8 x 27.5 cm, signed c.l. with initials and in full on the stretcher and dated 1852
This painting is for sale.
price range: € 2,500 - € 5,000
Provenance: mevr. Van Omme-van der Zwaan, Breda.
Exhibited: Winterswijk, museum Mondriaanhuis, jan. 2020-april 2023.
Jan Braet von Uberfeldt was an influential painter of portraits and genre and history pieces. Pupil of the then well-known genre and portrait painter Jan Adam Kruseman. He lived in Amsterdam for most of his life. In 1877 he settled in Langerak near Doetinchem. He taught painters such as Jacob Willem Gruijter and J.F.P. Portielje, but was also an early teacher of Piet Mondrian.
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