Johannes Tavenraat artwork • painting • previously for sale Hilly landscape with tree
Johannes Tavenraat
Rotterdam 1809-1881
1809-1881
Hilly landscape with tree
oil on panel 10.9 x 17.4 cm, signed l.l. and dated 1848
This painting was previously for sale.
Johannes Tavenraat, eccentric painter and romantic pur sang, was predestined for trade, but at the age of 30 he opted for a career as a painter. Between 1846 and 1860 he worked in Kleve, where he most likely visited the painting school of B.C. Koekkoek. An art critic wrote in 1844 in the 'Kunstkronijk': 'When Mr. T. wanted to settle out of his atmosphere of pompous poetry and propose simple truth, we would have won a talented landscape painter'. In contrast to the extremely detailed painting method of B.C. Koekkoek, Tavenraat painted much smoother and looser in tone.