Willem Carel Nakken artwork • watercolour • drawing • previously for sale Putting the horses to the carriage
Willem Carel Nakken
Den Haag 1835-1926 Rijswijk
1835-1926
Putting the horses to the carriage
watercolour on paper 28.3 x 39.2 cm, signed l.l.
This work on paper was previously for sale.
Provenance: Roelofs Kunsthandels, Amsterdam, inv.nr. 10078.
Willem Carel Nakken was a painter of sun drenched landscapes and farmsteads, often with horses as staffage. Having first worked in and around The Hague, Oosterbeek and Limburg, from 1867 on, several study trips to Normandy provided him with subject matter for his paintings. The handsome, thickset horses he painted earned him a reputation as equestrian artist. He was often commissioned to paint portraits of horses and sometimes also of dogs, prized bulls and cattle.
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