DOI Heft:
No. 82 (January, 1900)
DOI Artikel:Zilcken, Philippe: The late Jacob Maris
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19783#0260
Jacob Maris
natural bent, employed Jvim in preparing'canvases,
and even let him make studies for him, taking up
so much of his time that, when Maris expressed a
wish to follow the course at the Academy, van Hove
refused. This led to a rupture between master
and pupil, and the young artist, partly aided by
Queen Sophia of the Netherlands, followed for
three consecutive years the lessons at the Antwerp
Drawing Academy.
After studying there for three years Jacob Maris
went back to The Hague, where he entered the
studio of Louis Meyer, more as an apprentice than
as a pupil. He cleaned his master's brushes, mixed
his colours, cut out in paper sea-birds which he had
to pin on the canvas in the right part of the sky,
so that Meyer might know exactly where to paint
them.
Meanwhile, in his leisure moments, he succeeded
in painting the first picture that fixed public atten-
tion upon him. It represented an interior with
a servant at her work, and is probably still at
The Hague, as it was bought by a Mr. Trossarello,
who was attached to the Court. This was an
important step for Maris; he had sold his first
picture and his career as an artist had begun.
A short time after this, in 1865, he left The
Hague for Paris with his friend Kaemmerer. There
he painted principally Italian figures, chiefly for sale.
For one year he frequented the studio of Hebert,
the distinguished artist whose works have always
some cold elegance. Hebert, who had the kindest
character, who always valued highly the good quali-
ties of others, who never showed the least jealousy,
found the colouring of Maris splendid; but he per-
ceived clearly that there was a certain heaviness
in the figures, and advised him to make them taller,
to give them more delicacy and grace.
Gradually Maris turned in the direction of land-
scape-painting, and at the Salon of 1868 he ex-
hibited a view of the Rhine which attracted much
notice and was bought by an art dealer. Thus
success had come when the war broke out.
" VIEW OF A TOWN " FROM A WATER-COLOUR BY JACOB MARIS
(By permission of Af. Taeo Mesdag)
234
natural bent, employed Jvim in preparing'canvases,
and even let him make studies for him, taking up
so much of his time that, when Maris expressed a
wish to follow the course at the Academy, van Hove
refused. This led to a rupture between master
and pupil, and the young artist, partly aided by
Queen Sophia of the Netherlands, followed for
three consecutive years the lessons at the Antwerp
Drawing Academy.
After studying there for three years Jacob Maris
went back to The Hague, where he entered the
studio of Louis Meyer, more as an apprentice than
as a pupil. He cleaned his master's brushes, mixed
his colours, cut out in paper sea-birds which he had
to pin on the canvas in the right part of the sky,
so that Meyer might know exactly where to paint
them.
Meanwhile, in his leisure moments, he succeeded
in painting the first picture that fixed public atten-
tion upon him. It represented an interior with
a servant at her work, and is probably still at
The Hague, as it was bought by a Mr. Trossarello,
who was attached to the Court. This was an
important step for Maris; he had sold his first
picture and his career as an artist had begun.
A short time after this, in 1865, he left The
Hague for Paris with his friend Kaemmerer. There
he painted principally Italian figures, chiefly for sale.
For one year he frequented the studio of Hebert,
the distinguished artist whose works have always
some cold elegance. Hebert, who had the kindest
character, who always valued highly the good quali-
ties of others, who never showed the least jealousy,
found the colouring of Maris splendid; but he per-
ceived clearly that there was a certain heaviness
in the figures, and advised him to make them taller,
to give them more delicacy and grace.
Gradually Maris turned in the direction of land-
scape-painting, and at the Salon of 1868 he ex-
hibited a view of the Rhine which attracted much
notice and was bought by an art dealer. Thus
success had come when the war broke out.
" VIEW OF A TOWN " FROM A WATER-COLOUR BY JACOB MARIS
(By permission of Af. Taeo Mesdag)
234