Otto Eerelman artwork • watercolour • drawing • previously for sale Horse-sledge, Haagse Bos
Otto Eerelman
Groningen 1839-1926
1839-1926
Horse-sledge, Haagse Bos
watercolour and gouache on paper 26.2 x 37.4 cm, signed l.l.
This work on paper was previously for sale.
Literature: Afgebeeld in 'The Dutch Art Diary 2003'; Nelly de Zwaan, 'Nederland uit de kunst: 365 dagen kijken en lezen', Warnsveld 2005, 23 jan. (met afb. in kleur).
Otto Eerelman was first a pupil at the Minerva Academy, Groningen, and later attended the Antwerp Academy (1864-1865). Having begun as a painter of old Dutch interiors and genre works, Eerelman gradually established a reputation as a painter of horses. He is best known for his paintings of Queen Wilhelmina in riding habit. His later work from the early 1880s is almost entirely devoted to dog portraits or groups of young dogs.
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