Willem Bastiaan Tholen 1860-1931 - Sunset shipping on the Zuiderzee, oil on canvas Double click image to zoom
19th Century Paintings

Willem Bastiaan Tholen 1860-1931

Sunset shipping on the Zuiderzee

Medium
oil on canvas
Signed
signed lower right
Dimensions
51x67 cm
Price
Price on Application
Additional Information


The Dutch artist Tholen mainly worked in the area of Giethoorn and Kampen and the Dutch fishing towns on the Zuiderzee.

After 1895 he lived on his sailing ship the Eudia and sailed the Zuiderzee, and many Dutch waters. Painting as he went in a impressionist way like this beautiful painting with its loose touch and bright colors. 

Paintings of Willem Bastiaan Tholen can be found in many museums:  o.a. het Groninger museum, Gemeentemuseum Kampen, Haags Gemeentemuseum en Museum Boymans-van Beuningen in Rotterdam.

This painting is in a very good original condition and ibeautiful gilt frame so ready to enjoy on your wall.


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About the artist

Willem Bastiaan Tholen 1860–1931

Willem Bastiaan Tholen (Amsterdam, 13 February 1860 – The Hague, 5 December 1931) was a Dutch painter, draughtsman and printmaker whose art occupies an individual position between the Hague School and the younger generation associated with the Tachtigers. He studied at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and at the Polytechnical School in Delft, subsequently receiving important guidance from the Hague School landscape painter Paul Joseph Constantin Gabriël. From 1880 he worked around Kampen and Giethoorn, and after settling in The Hague in the 1880s he continued to paint throughout the Netherlands, particularly around the Zuiderzee and on the waterways of Holland. Tholen is best known for landscapes and water scenes: boats, harbours, rivers, polders and village views. Yet his oeuvre also encompasses intimate interiors, portraits, figures, animals, city scenes and nocturnes. His compositions are often distinguished by unexpected viewpoints, cropped forms and a keen observation of changing weather and light. His handling ranges from broadly painted oils to highly assured drawings, watercolours and prints; colour may be luminous and clear, while tonal passages convey mist, winter air or reflected light.

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