"..and to my great pleasure I heard that the work 'The Wodan's Oaks' (at my brother's home), had also struck you so much. I think this is almost the most beautiful painting Bilders has made. I know that many of our artists have also been struck by it at Goupil's [art-seller in The Hague]. Among others Jacob Maris has spoken about it so warmly. And if one remembers that Bilders was [already] 75 when he made this! After the Wodan's oak - (?) to his Paradise.. [4 years later he died] (translation from Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek)"
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version in original Dutch (citaat van A. C. Loffelt, in Nederlands): ..en tot mijn groot genoegen hoorde ik dat het stuk 'de Wodans Eiken' (bij mijn broeder), u ook zoo getroffen hadt. Ik vind dit haast 't mooiste wat Bilders gemaakt heeft, ik weet dat het bij Goupil [kunst-handelaar o.a. in Den Haag] ook menigeen onzer artisten getroffen heeft. o.a. heeft Jacob Maris er nog met warmte over gesproken. En als men daar bedacht dat Bilders 75 was toen hij dit maakte! Na de Wodans eiken - (?) naar z
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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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