"Of course I should be very happy to sell a drawing but I am happier still when a real artist like Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch says about an unsalable??? study or drawing: 'That is true to nature, I could work from that myself.'"
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Quote of Vincent van Gogh, in his letter to brother Theo, from The Hague, The Netherlands Febr. 1882; as cited in Vincent van Gogh, edited by Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935, p. 20 (letter 177)
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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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