Vue de ferme (Landschape with farmhouse) Belgian expressionism - Jacob Smits

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Peter Pappot Kunsthandel

Price

€ 5.000 till € 10.000

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Available

Artist

Jacob Smits
Netherlands 1856 - 1928 Belgium
Artist biography

Origin

Mr. Auguste Vermeijden, Brussels, than heir

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Initials

Material

Oil on canvas

Description

Jacob Smits was born in Rotterdam in 1856, he died in Achterbos, near Mol in Belgium in 1928. At first he worked in his father’s decoration-studio, than he studied at the Artschool in Rotterdam and later on at the Artschool in Brussels (Belgium) and Munich (Germany). In 1882 Jacob Smits settled in Amsterdam. He was not only a painter, also a draughtsman and an etcher. One of his first important orders was the decoration of the entrance-hall of the Museum Boymans-van Beuningen in Rotterdam. For some time he was director of the School for Technical Education and Decoration in Haarlem. Jacob Smits regularly painted in Drente and in Limburg. He was in friendly contact with Anton Mauve and A. Neyhuys. In 1889 he left for Achterbos in Belgium, where he stayed till his death in 1928. In Achterbos and surroundings he painted the country and the poor peasants. His work can be found in museums in Antwerp, Brussels, Kortrijk, Luik, Brugge (Belgium) etc.