"..so much is certain at least that seeing and studying the great Dutch masters arouse and encourage me to follow nature as a child, and to notice in it all those little ingenuous things and niceties as much as possible and reproduce them faithfully, which are so necessary to constitute a beautiful whole. (translation from the Dutch original: Fons Heijnsbroek)"
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letter to his mecenas , The Hague 9 Jan. 1857; from an excerpt of this letter, in the RKD-Archive, The Hague
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Gerard Bilders
Albertus Gerardus "Gerard" Bilders (9 December 1838 – 8 March 1865), son of painter Johannes Warnardus Bilders, was a Dutch landscape-painter who foreshadowed with his typical 'warm grey' the tonal painting style of the Hague School painters. He was frequently painting in plein air with Anton Mauve, and Willem Maris around the village Oosterbeek.
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