"..it's a pity that he [Anton Mauve] is so limited, he was here Sunday and Monday and I talked to him a lot, I think he is a bit of a week; very sensitive, a warm man, but so simple and round. Yet I thought he was even more limited, he admitted that direction [in painting] is nonsense and that everything depends on personality; he strongly advised me to paint many large figures in open air; don't talk about it to anyone: it's nobody's business.. (translation, Fons Heijnsbroek)"
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Anton Mauve
Anton Mauve (Zaandam, 18 Sept. 1838 - Laren, 5 Feb. 1888) was a Dutch landscape painter and a leading member of the Hague School; in The Netherlands he became famous as the 'sheep'-painter. Mauve was frequently painting in open air with Willem Maris and Gerard Bilders around the village Oosterbeek. He had a significant early influence on his cousin-in-law Vincent van Gogh.
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