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MAUVE, ANTON (1838–1888)

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MAUVE, ANTON (1838–1888) , Dutch landscape painter, was See also:born at See also:Zaandam, the son of a Baptist See also:minister. Much against the wish of his parents he took up the study of See also:art and entered the studio of See also:Van Os, whose dry See also:academic manner had, however, but little attraction for him. He benefited far more by his intimacy with his See also:friends Jozef Israels and W. See also:Maris. Encouraged by their example he abandoned his See also:early tight and highly finished manner for a freer, looser method of See also:painting, and the brilliant See also:palette of his youthful See also:work for a See also:tender lyric See also:harmony which is generally restricted to delicate greys, greens, and See also:light See also:blue. He excelled in rendering the soft hazy See also:atmosphere that lingers over the See also:green meadows of See also:Holland, and devoted himself almost exclusively to depicting the peaceful rural See also:life of the See also:fields and See also:country lanes of Holland—especially of the districts near Oosterbeek and Wolfhezen, the See also:sand See also:dunes of the See also:coast at See also:Scheveningen, and the country near Laren, where he spent the last years of his life. A little sad and See also:melancholy, his See also:pastoral scenes are nevertheless conceived in a peaceful soothing lyrical See also:mood, which is in marked contrast to the epic See also:power and almost tragic intensity of J. F. See also:Millet. There are fourteen of Mauve's pictures at the Mesdag Museum at the See also:Hague, and two (" Milking See also:Time " and " A Fishing See also:Boat putting to See also:Sea ") at the Ryks Museum in See also:Amsterdam. The See also:Glasgow See also:Corporation See also:Gallery owns his painting of " A See also:Flock of See also:Sheep." The finest and most representative private collection of pictures by Mauve was made by Mr J. C.

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London.

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