Willem Korteling artwork • painting • previously for sale Children playing in the snow
Willem Korteling
Deventer 1889-1964 Diepenveen
1889-1964
Children playing in the snow
oil on canvas 33.5 x 44.3 cm, signed l.r.
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: Anne Louise de Graevenitz, daarna door vererving in bezit gekomen van de vorige eigenaar (part. bezit Groot-Brittannië).
Willem Korteling was born to a well-established family of painters in Deventer and took his first drawing lessons from his father, Bartus Korteling. Having judged his son sufficiently talented, Willem was given permission to make painting his profession. The garden behind his parents’ home provided his first inspiration for myriad studies of flowers, chickens and other small animals; later he added landscapes, small livestock, birds and still lifes, rendering them in a manner both subtle and sumptuous. Korteling continued to paint in and around Deventer his entire life.
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