"Recently my father visited me and he was very pleased with my little painting, the one you also found quite good. So this little work, which has cost me so many unpleasant hours, still has delivered me two pleasant moments after all. .. I imagine that I have now gained fresh courage again, because I have to confess that I lowered my courage a bit. I have decided not to overcome by despair so soon again. (translation from Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek)."
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version in original Dutch (citaat van ' brief, in het Nederlands): Mijn vader heeft mij onlangs bezocht en was zeer tevreden over mijn schilderijtje, hetzelfde dat u ook redelijk goed vond. Zoodat nu dit stukje, hetwelk mij zooveel onaangename uren gekost heeft, mij toch nog bij slot van rekening twee aangename oogenblikken heeft opgeleverd.. .Ik verbeeld mij, dat ik nu weder frisschen moed heb opgedaan, want ik moet u bekennen, dat ik dien wel een weinigje had laten zakken. Ik heb mij voorgenom
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Johannes Warnardus Bilders
1811 – 1890
Johannes Warnardus Bilders (18 August 1811 – 29 October 1890) was a Dutch landscape-painter who was the father of Gerard Bilders (1838–1865) and a forerunner of the Hague School. In 1880 he married the woman-painter Marie Bilders-van Bosse, his former pupil.
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