Woutherus Mol - Academy Study of a Man and a Woman [1808]

Woutherus Mol - Academy Study of a Man and a Woman [1808], a photo by Gandalf's Gallery on Flickr.

Woutherus Mol (March 21, 1785 - August 30, 1857) was a Dutch painter. After the restoration of the Netherlands in 1813 he returned to his home town Haarlem where he further developed his talent by studying the Dutch masters, for which the Amsterdam museum offered him plenty opportunity. His later works were considered to be of inferior quality, and public opinion turned against him, though his friends continued to encourage him. Woutherus Mol had a nervous breakdown, and in 1846, he entered the "Rooms-Katholieke Wees- en armenhuis" (the Catholic almshouse, or Diaconie, which building is currently in use as police station) in Haarlem, where he died in 1857.

[Rijksmusem, Amsterdam - Oil on canvas, 96 x 83 cm]