"They [the sketches of young Willem Maris] were fast, broad, colorful, suggestive drawings, from which life and movement is speaking, in just a few lines of black chalk, which are softened here and there by a lick with the thumb. (translation from original Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)"
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Quote of Philip Zilcken, citing w:Anton Mauve, c. 1890; as cited in Anton Mauve, exhibition catalog of Teylers Museum, Haarlem / Laren, Singer, ed. De Bodt en Plomp, 2009, p.38 — Zilcken is citing the reaction of Anton Mauve on the sketches of the young Willem Maris, working in Oosterbeek, c. 1862
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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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