"He [Bosbooom] may have been influenced by Romanticism and in particular by [[w:Wijnand Nuijen|[Wijnand] Nuyen]], later he may have sought more powerful effects in his admiration for Rembrandt, after 1870 he may have been influenced by the modern breath of a burgeoning [[w:Impressionism|Impressionism - and this was unquestionably the case, - it does not detract from the fact that from the very beginning he remained himself, from the very beginning he was recognized for the gifts of his heart and his hand in a genre which at that time was quite widely practiced."
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Johannes Bosboom
Johannes Bosboom (The Hague, 18 February, 1817 – 14 September, 1891) was one of the well-known Dutch senior painters and water-colorists of the Hague School - famous especially for his painted church interiors.
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