Photographers From The Netherlands

"With his sketchbooks in [our] hand, we now are able to follow the routes that Breitner walked from his home to his studio or his favorite pub [in Amsterdam center]. He often passed the same places, which he sketched, just like the people he saw there. Here and there he also scribbled an address or another kind of note.. (translation from the original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)"

"At Dam square [Amsterdam] we sometimes waited a long time for the horses he needed [for a new painting], four white horses which came back from the Haarlemmerdijk. Then he made sketches and I helped him to distract curiosity [of the people at Dam square]. Sometimes I did object to such a trip, when it was blowing hard or raining, but then he was in his element: 'But dude, don't you see how beautiful it is."