Jacob Maris - A Windmill and Houses Beside Water: Stormy Sky [c.1880-90]

Jacob Maris - A Windmill and Houses Beside Water: Stormy Sky [c.1880-90], originally uploaded by Gandalf's Gallery.

Maris excelled at such small, quick evocations of the flat Dutch landscape and the massive, grey cloud formations that scud across the huge expanse of sky. In this painting, only a windmill breaks the line of the horizon. Jacob Hendrick Maris (1837 – 1899) was born in The Hague, and was the elder brother of Matthijs and Willem Maris. He studied in The Hague and Antwerp. From 1866 to 1871 he was in Paris; then he settled in The Hague. He died in Carlsbad.

[Oil on canvas, 48.3 x 59.5 cm]