Carel Jacobus Behr (9 July 1812 in

The Hague The Hague ( ; nl, Den Haag or ) is a city and municipality of the Netherlands, situated on the west coast facing the North Sea. The Hague is the country's administrative centre and its seat of government, and while the official capital o ...

– 11 November 1895) was a Dutch painter,

watercolorist Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (British English; see spelling differences), also ''aquarelle'' (; from Italian diminutive of Latin ''aqua'' "water"), is a painting method”Watercolor may be as old as art itself, going back to t ...

and draftsman. He was a pupil of

Bartholomeus Johannes van Hove Bartholomeus Johannes van Hove (October 28, 1790 in The Hague – November 8, 1880 in The Hague) was a Dutch painter and the father of Hubertus van Hove. He played an important role in the development of 19th-century painting by his many disc ...

and mainly painted cityscapes, genre scenes and portraits. In 1836 he produced, commissioned by The Hague municipal government, an image of the town hall there, which carried off the approval of connoisseurs. In 1837 he became a member of the Royal Academy in Amsterdam. His work is found in various collections and different exhibitions, like at the Hague in 1839, Rotterdam in 1840 and again at the Hague in 1841.

Gallery

File:Town hall of Delft, by Carel Jacobus Behr.jpg, ''Town hall of Delft'', 1878 File:Carel Jacobus Behr, Daily activities along the Paviljoensgracht with the St. Jacobskerk in the distance, The Hague.jpg, ''Daily activities along the Paviljoensgracht with the St. Jacobskerk in the distance'' File:Carel Johannes Behr, Gezicht op het Stadhuis van Leiden.jpg, ''View on Leiden city hall'', 1860 File:Stadswal met kruitmagazijn Rijksmuseum SK-A-1006.jpeg, ''City wall with powder magazine'', 1830

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Behr, Carel Jacobus 19th-century Dutch painters Dutch male painters 1812 births 1895 deaths Artists from The Hague Dutch romantic painters Dutch landscape painters Romantic painters 19th-century Dutch male artists