Simon Willem Maris (May 21, 1873 – January 22, 1935) was a

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painter best known as a portrait artist. He was the son of Dutch landscape painter

Willem Maris Willem Maris (18 February 1844 – 10 October 1910) was a Dutch landscape painter of the Hague School. Biography He was born in The Hague. Willem was the third in a family of five children. His two brothers Jacob and Matthijs Maris preceded him ...

of the

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Life and work

He was born in

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. Simon Maris was a student of his father Willem Maris and subsequently studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague and at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Arts of Antwerp. He then spent some time in

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and made study trips to Paris and Italy. In 1900 he settled in

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. In 1903 he traveled with his friend

Piet Mondriaan Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan (), after 1906 known as Piet Mondrian (, also , ; 7 March 1872 – 1 February 1944), was a Dutch painter and art theoretician who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. He is known for being o ...

for a few months to

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. Together with Mondrian and Arnold Marc Gorter he would regularly paint in the following years on the Gein River, where he also drew Mondrian's portrait in 1906. After his marriage to Cornelia den Breejen in 1908, he worked in

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during the summers. Simon Maris 001

Maris became especially famous as a portrait artist, mostly of worldly women, often commissioned. He also made more informal portraits of mothers with children or women reading, using his wife and children as models. He also painted cityscapes, beach scenes, landscapes and

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s. He worked in both a realistic and

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style, with close attention to how sunlight works. His work has a striking relationship with that of Albert Roelofs, also the son of a well-known Hague artist—

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 ...

. Maris was a well-known figure in Amsterdam artist circles around 1900. He died in 1935 at the age of 61 in Amsterdam.https://www.geni.com/people/Simon-Willem-Maris/6000000073725429836 Genealogical information about Maris His work, along with his most famous painting

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, is among the collections of the

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, the

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, the

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, the

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, the Municipal Museum of The Hague and the

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References

* Jaqueline de Raad: '' Maris - een kunstenaarsfamilie '' (Maris - A Family of Artists). Waanders Uitgevers & Singer Museum Zwolle/Laren, 1991 () * Paul Gorter: '' Maris and Mondriann '' Tirade. Issue 41 (pgs. 367-372), 1997 * Lisa Lambrechts: "Short notice : From Young Woman with a Fan to Isabella : a rediscovered identity" The Rijksmuseum Bulletin 68 (pgs. 157-165), 2020

External links

Biographical information

Information about Maris and Mondriaan on DBNL

Information about Maris and one of his more famous paintings

Information about one of Maris' paintings

Genealogical information about Maris
{{DEFAULTSORT:Maris, Simon 20th-century Dutch painters Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp) alumni Painters from Amsterdam