




Note : Please do not email me with technical questions about paintings and their age and origin because I am not an expert but I only have gathered information about the Painters from the Netherlands and specially from Dordrecht.
Dordrecht is not only known as the oldest city and ancient capital of Holland but also for the many famous painters who were born or lived in Dordrecht during the late Middle ages and later centuries.
On the next pages you can find many works from these famous painters who were responsible for many styles of paintings and they immortalized the daily life and landscapes in the 15th to 19th century. Most of their masterpieces are nowadays part of collections in museums all over the world and of which many can be seen in the local Dordrechts Museum.
Michiel Versteegh was born in Dordrecht. No information of him is available than only that he was a collector of paintings and other art. After his dead in 1843 his estates was auctioned by Geluk and Mak van Waay, entrepreneurs of public sale shall, in Dordrecht on April 14, 1847, under the direction of the Painters Frans .J. van den Blijk and H.F. Verheggen.
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Female in a bay by candlelightMichiel VersteeghOil on panel 34,4 x 27,2 cm Dordrechts museum |
An elegant couple Counting money by candlelight, at a stone nicheMichiel Versteegh, 1779Oil on panel 51.7 x 40.7 cm Private collection |
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Smoking a pipeMichiel VersteeghInk and gouache on paper 22.5 x 20.5 cm Private collection |
Astronomers at a Table by CandlelightMichiel VersteeghPencil, pen and black ink, black wash heightened with white 22,3 x 30,5 cm Private collection |
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Jan Veth (1864-1925) was a man of many talents. In addition to his activities as a painter and a graphic artist he wrote art reviews and poems. Above all, though, he was a successful portraitist. The exhibition centers on portraits of artists and writers. Portraits of artists, including those of George Breitner, Jozef Israels, Willem Maris, Jacob Maris and Hendrik Mesdag, are displayed among their watercolors, gouaches, drawings, sketchbooks and prints from the museum's collection. Portraits of writers such as Louis Couperus, Lodewijk van Deijssel, Frederik van Eeden and Jacobus van Looy are shown in combination with their finest book-covers. There is also a gallery with portraits of art collectors, museum directors, scholars, politicians and so forth. The atmosphere of the period during which Jan Veth and his contemporaries lived is evoked in the exhibition by examples of decorative art, including furniture, vases, lamps and rugs.
Partly by his litho images of his contemporaries he was one of the most famous artists of his time. In the twenties he was professor at the State Academy in Amsterdam. Besides painting Vethj was a writer. As a poet he belonged to the circle of the Eighties and was member of the literary magazine The New Guide. Around the turn of the century he was one of the first real art critics.
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Portrait of Jacobus van LooyJan VethPaper, black and red chalk, paintbrush in black, 38 x 31 cm Dordrechts Museum |
Laren's childJan Veth, 1886Oil on canvas 38,1 x 25,9 cm Dordrechts Museum |
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Portrait of Lambertus ZijlJan VethOil on canvas 42 x 33 cm Dordrechts Museum |
Portrait of mister A.J. LebretJan Veth, 1920Oil on canvas 66,8 x 50,6 cm Dordrechts Museum |
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Portrait of Anna Cornelia Veth-Giltay, mother of the artistJan VethOil on panel 13,3 x 10,5 cm Dordrechts Museum |
Street in NaardenJan VethOil on canvas on panel 32,8 x 25,8 cm Dordrechts Museum |
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Portrait of Dr. H.G. SamsonJan Veth, 1893Oil on canvas on panel 52,4 x 43,7 cm Dordrechts Museum |
Portrait of Frans LebretJan VethOil on canvas 74,5 x 64,2 cm Dordrechts Museum |
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Portrait of the painter Maurits Willem van der ValkVeth, Jan, 1929Oil on canvas 43,1 x 35 cm Dordrechts Museum |
Portrait of Mrs. H.J.E. Wertheim Salomonson-HijmansJan Veth, 1908Oil on panel 65,6 x 51,7 cm Dordrechts Museum |
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Portrait of Prof. Dr. Pietsser Johannes VethJan Veth, 1886Oil on canvas on panel 100,5 x 80 cm Dordrechts Museum |
Portrait of Prof. Anton DerkinderenJan Veth, 1915Oil on canvas 117,2 x 89,8 cm Dordrechts Museum |
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Portrait of Elisabeth Ragazzi-van den Wall BakeJan VethOil on canvas 41,7 x 35,7 cm Dordrechts Museum |
Portrait of W.H.J. OderwaldJan Veth, 1925Oil on canvas 67,4 x 54,7 cm Dordrechts Museum |
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ShipyardVeth, JanOil on panel 16,7 x 32,9 cm Dordrechts Museum |
Portrait of HeintjeJan Veth, 1891Paper, red-brown and en black chalk Dordrechts Museum |
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Alexander Wust was born in Dordrecht and moved to Antwerp about 1850s Shortly after he moved, lived and studied in New York, painting primarily in the Adirondack region and in New England. He exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Brooklyn Art Association. At the end of his life he returned to Antwerp where he shortly after died in 1876.
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Pond in wooded areaAlexander WüstOil on canvas on panel 24 x 33,2 cm Dordrechts Museum |
Mount Desert landscape in moonlightAlexander Wüstpanel 59,2 x 83 cm Dordrechts Museum |
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Native American hunter alongside a woodland creek with other companions in front of their tipisAlexander Ferdinand Wust, 1869oil on canvas 45.5" x 20" Private collection |
Sunset landscapeAlexander Ferdinand Wust, 1868Oil on canvas 45.7 x 80.2 cm Private collection |
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Fire at twilightAlexander Ferdinand WustOil on paper laid on canvas 20.3 x 40.6 cm Private collection |
PeachesAlexander Ferdinand Wust, 1869Oil on panel 13.2 x 21.6 cm Private collection |
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