Frederik Hendrik Kaemmerer (23 October 1839 – 4 April 1902) was a Dutch painter. He originally worked in the Romantic and

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styles, but later became an

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Biography

Frederik Hendrik Kaemmerer The beach of Schieveningen

He was born in

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and began his artistic studies at the

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with

Salomon Verveer Salomon Leonardus Verveer (30 November 1813 – 5 January 1876) was a Dutch marinist and landscape painter. He was one of the most versatile and successful artists at the time of the Dutch romance, both at home and abroad. His sepia gouache and ...

, who taught in the Romantic tradition.Profile @ the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie. His early works were mostly landscapes in the style of the

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. His first solo exhibition was in 1861 in

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. In 1865, attracted by new trends in art, he went to Paris and enrolled at the

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, where he studied with

Jean-Léon Gérôme Jean-Léon Gérôme (11 May 1824 – 10 January 1904) was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as academicism. His paintings were so widely reproduced that he was "arguably the world's most famous living artist by 1880." The ran ...

and switched to a more Academic style. For a time, he specialized in French

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scenes set in the 18th century, featuring elegant ladies with courteous men. In 1870, he held his first exhibition at the

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and won a medal there in 1874.Biographical notes
@ Rau Antiques. He established a studio in Paris and became a client of

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, but frequently returned to The Hague with friends and would stay at a seaside hotel in

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. It was during these stays that he began his transition to Impressionism; inspired by the effects of sunlight on the water and the fleeting changes of light and shadow on the sand. His work in this style proved to be successful, both in France and the Netherlands and he was awarded a silver medal at the

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. After 1891, he worked as an illustrator for

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; contributing to their ''Neerland's Pen en Stift'' series ("Dutch literature illustrated by Dutch artists"). His first drawings appeared in ''Eene Illuzie'', a collection of stories by

Louis Couperus Louis Marie-Anne Couperus (10 June 1863 – 16 July 1923) was a Dutch novelist and poet. His oeuvre contains a wide variety of genres: lyric poetry, psychological and historical novels, novellas, short stories, fairy tales, feuilletons and ske ...

. He apparently committed suicide at his studio in Paris. His works are in museums throughout France and the Netherlands, as well as in Munich and the

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Selected paintings

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'' File:Frederik Hendrik Kaemmerer Im Park.jpg, ''In the Park'', 1880 File:Frederick Hendrik Kaemmerer - Portrait of a Woman.jpg, ''Portrait of a Woman'', c. 1895 File:Baile de máscaras - Frederik Hendrik Kaemmerer.jpg, ''At the

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'' File:Frederick Hendrik Kaemmerer - A Winter Escapade.jpg, ''A Winter Escapade'', c. 1870

References

External links

Arcadja Auctions: More works by Kaemmerer.
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Biography

Selected paintings

Further reading

References

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