Johannes Bosboom (18 February 1817 – 14 September 1891) was a Dutch painter and watercolorist of the

Hague School The Hague School is a group of artists who lived and worked in The Hague between 1860 and 1890. Their work was heavily influenced by the Realism (visual arts), realist painters of the French Barbizon school. The painters of the Hague school genera ...

, known especially for his paintings of church interiors.

Biography

He was born in

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. At the age of 14 he became a student of

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and painted in his studio along with Van Hove's son

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. Together they worked on the pieces of scenery that Van Hove created for the Royal Theatre in The Hague. In addition, Bosboom took lessons from 1831 to 1835 and again from 1839 to 1840 in the Hague Academy of Art. Here he also made the acquaintance of

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and Wijnand Nuyen. The young Bosboom traveled to Germany in 1835 to Düsseldorf, Cologne and Koblenz and painted the watercolor ''View of the Mosel Bridge at Koblenz''. This painting was purchased by

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, who became his confidant and friend. In 1839 he traveled to Paris and Rouen and received a silver medal for ''View of the Paris Quay and the Cathedral at Rouen''. He also painted a number of church interiors, a relatively traditional genre in which the seventeenth century artists

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and

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served as important examples. Bosboom had a great deal of success with these pieces, and for the rest of his career he would repeatedly return to this theme, which was the one in which he would achieve his greatest fame. Bosboom's choice of subject matter may seem to isolate him from the rest of the Hague School, but his search for ways to reproduce the spatial atmosphere through light, shadow, and nuances of color places him in the very mainstream of this group. In 1873, during a stay in Scheveningen, he painted many watercolors of town views, the dunes, the beach and the sea. It is possible that these watercolors encouraged

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and

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to concentrate further on the sea and beach as subjects. Bosboom died in The Hague on 14 September 1891.

Honours

1886: Officer in the Order of Leopold.Handelsblad (Het) 11-03-1886

Gallery

Image:Bakenesserkerk 1870.jpg, ''Bakenesserkerk Interior'' (1870). Dordrecht's Museum aan de Haven. Image:Johannes Bosboom - Interieur van een boerendeel bij Hilversum.jpg, ''Interieur van een boerendeel bij Hilversum'' Image:Johannes Bosboom - Het strand te Scheveningen.jpg, ''Het strand te Scheveningen'' Image:Johannes Bosboom - Gezicht te Koblenz.jpg, ''Gezicht te Koblenz (watercolor)'' Image:Johannes Bosboom - Gezicht te Koblenz (1835).jpg, ''Gezicht te Koblenz (1835)'' Image:Johannes Bosboom - Stadspleintje.jpg, ''Stadspleintje'' Image:Johannes Bosboom - Interieur van de Nieuwe Kerk te Delft.jpg, ''Interieur van de Nieuwe Kerk te Delft''

References

Sources

*Sillevis, John and Tabak, Anne, ''The Hague School Book'', Waanders Uitgegevers, Zwolle, 2004 (pp 195–203)

External links

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biography facts and dates of J. Bosboom at the Dutch R.K.D.

''Johannes Bosboom'', by Gerarda Hermina Marius - in free pdf
publish, M. Nijhoff, 1917, 's-Gravenhage / The Hague
many images of Bosboom's art, in the Rijksmuseum of Amsterdam
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