A Canal, with a Town in the Distance, with Rain Passing
About this artwork
The Hague School was the name given to the group of Dutch painters living around The Hague between 1860 and 1890. Pictures by Hague School artists were extremely popular with Scottish collectors, who were among the first outside The Netherlands to take a serious interest in modern Dutch painting. Many Scottish artists completed their training in Parisian studios and at Antwerp. Like the Glasgow Boys, they were much influenced by the realist Barbizon painters in France. They painted the flat Dutch landscape and low lying shoreline using a relatively restricted and sombre palette, capturing the subdued light and soft hazy atmosphere of open meadows.
Updated before 2020
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artist:Jacob Maris (1837 - 1899) Dutch
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title:A Canal, with a Town in the Distance, with Rain Passing
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date created:Unknown
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materials:Watercolour on paper
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measurements:33.50 x 23.50 cm
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object type:
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credit line:Presented by the executors of the late Catherine A. Hamilton-Bruce 1978
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accession number:D 5044
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gallery:
Jacob Maris
Jacob Maris
Born in The Hague, Maris trained in Antwerp and Paris, where he was greatly influenced by the art of the Barbizon painters. Much of his early work consisted of domestic scenes of figures. When Jacob returned to his native town in the summer of 1871, he had turned his back on figurative painting to...
