Jan Jacob Spohler artwork • painting • previously for sale A winter landscape with a traveller and a hunter
Jan Jacob Spohler
Nederhorst den Berg 1811-1879 Amsterdam
1811-1866
A winter landscape with a traveller and a hunter
oil on canvas 66.5 x 93.4 cm, signed l.l.
This painting was previously for sale.
Jan Jacob Spohler was trained as a painter in the studio of the then noted history painter Jan Willem Pieneman. He gradually applied himself to painting detailed Dutch summer and winter landscapes. These had all the ingredients that made such scenes so popular in the 19th century: tranquil summer river views with sailing craft and rowing boats, people busily engaged, or cold winter scenes of reflective ice, leafless trees, skaters and shared conviviality around a refreshment stall. He was tutor to his son Jacob Jan Coenraad Spohler. His other son, Johannes Franciscus, specialized in cityscapes.