Jacob Jan van der Maaten (4 January 1820 in
Elburg – 16 April 1879 in
Apeldoorn) was a Dutch painter and etcher.
Van der Maaten was a pupil of
Hendrikus van de Sande Bakhuyzen
300px, ''The Artist Painting a Cow in a Meadow Landscape''. Oil on panel, 1850. Rijksmuseum
Hendrik (Hendrikus) van de Sande Bakhuyzen (2 January 1795 – 12 December 1860) was a Dutch landscape painter and art teacher. He was a prominent contri ...
and studied at the
Royal Academy of Art, The Hague. In 1852 he became a member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam. Later, Van der Maaten became teacher at the so-called King's School in Apeldoorn (1866–1879).
Van der Maaten was a landscape painter who captured summer landscapes in bright colors (much green and manganese blue), usually with some figures and cattle. He worked in The Hague (1843–1852), Amsterdam (1854–1855), The Hague (1857–1864) and in Apeldoorn (until 1879).
Van der Maaten was one of the founders of
Pulchri Studio in The Hague, along with
Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch
Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch, also known as Hendrik Johannes Weissenbruch (born 19 June 1824 in The Hague – died 24 March 1903 in The Hague) was a Dutch painter of the Hague School. He is noted especially for his watercolours.
Biography
Hendrik Jo ...
,
Jan Weissenbruch,
Willem Roelofs
Willem Roelofs (10 March 1822 – 12 May 1897) was a Dutch painter, water-colourist, etcher, lithographer and draughtsman. Roelofs was one of the forerunners of the Dutch Revival art, after the Romantic Classicism of the beginning of the 19th cent ...
,
Jan Frederik van Deventer,
Willem Antonie van Deventer and
FH Michael.
Van der Maaten's masterpiece was “Begrafenis in het koren” (Burial in the cornfield), which in 1863 was the success of the exhibition in Brussels. Later it was exhibited at the
International Exposition (1867) in Paris.
Vincent van Gogh admired this painting so much that he had a reproduction of it on the wall.
Vincent van Gogh referred i
several lettersto his brother
Theo van Gogh to the work of Van der Maaten.
The
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam,
Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo,
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag,
Groninger Museum,
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam,
[Lexicon Nederlandse Beeldende Kunstenaars 1750–1880, herzien door P.Scheen, 1981] CODA Museum Apeldoorn and Museum Elburg have paintings of Van der Maaten.
Bibliography
*J.Winkler Prins, 'J.J. van de Maaten', De Leeswijzer 2 (1885/1886), p. 303–305
*
G.H.Marius, De Hollandsche schilderkunst in de negentiende eeuw, 's-Gravenhage 1920, p. 69
*J.Knoef, 'J.J. van der Maaten(1820–1879)', Maandblad voor beeldende kunsten (1928), p. 141–149
*J.Knoef, Een eeuw Nederlandse schilderkunst, Amsterdam 1948, p. 87
*R. de Leeuw, J. Sillevis, Ch. Dumas, cat.tent. De Haagse School – Hollandse Meesters van de 19de eeuw, Parijs (Grand Palais), Londen (Royal Academy), Den Haag (Haags Gemeentemuseum) 1983, p. 53 en passim
*P. Schrier, 'De Haagsche Etsclub', Jaarboek Die Haghe 1992, p. 29–53; p. 47
*H.J. Kraaij, Charles Leickert,1816–1907: Painter of the Dutch Landscapes, Schiedam 1996, p. 22,41,45
*C. Stolwijk, Uit de schilderswereld. Nederlandse kunstschilders in de tweede helft van de negentiende eeuw, Leiden 1998, p. 306,339,343
*R. den Hartog, Groet Molletje van mij. Alexander Mollinger (1836–1867), een Utrechts schilder op de drempel van de Haagse School, Vianen 2008, p. 66, 67
*De Schilderkunst der Lage Landen, deel 3, Amsterdam University Press, 2007, p. 45
*Lexicon Nederlandse Beeldende Kunstenaars 1750–1880, herzien door P.Scheen, 1981, p. 328
References
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1820 births
1879 deaths
Dutch male painters
Dutch etchers
Hague School
People from Elburg
19th-century Dutch male artists