"I now have permission, so long as Mauve is ill or too busy with his large painting, to go to Weissenbruch if I need to know something, and W. told me that in no way should I be worried about the change in M.'s mood. I also asked W. what he thought of my pen drawings. Those are your best, he said. And I told him that Tersteeg [director of art-seller Goupil, branche The Hague] had criticized them. Take no notice of it, he said, when Mauve said there was a painter in you, Tersteeg said no, and Mauve took your side against Tersteeg, and I was there, and if it happens again, I too will take your side, now that I've seen your work.. .I consider it a great privilege to visit such clever people as W. once in a while, especially when they take the trouble - as W. did this morning, for instance - to take a drawing they're working on but haven't finished yet and to explain how they set about doing it. That's what I need."
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Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch
Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch, also known as Hendrik Johannes Weissenbruch, (The Hague, 19 June 1824 - The Hague 24 March 1903) was a Dutch landscape-painter of Dutch Impressionism and leading figure in the Hague School.
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