"As far as I can remember, it was before my twelfth year that I was sketching cows in the mornings before and afternoons after school, and because my brothers were 4 and 6 years older than me – naturally I got from them my first teachings in drawing and later in painting. (translation from original Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)"
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Willem Maris
Willem Maris (18 February 1844, The Hague – 10 October 1910, The Hague) was a Dutch landscape painter of the Hague School, like his two brothers, Jacob Maris and Matthijs Maris. Willem was famous for his paintings with cows in the meadow in the daylight.
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