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Birth
1845 (The Hague)
Death
1914 (Amsterdam, Holland)
Lived/Active
Netherlands/United States/Holland
Self portrait
Often Known For
Hague School peasant figure, portrait and child genre painting, lithography
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A painter of happy scenes of peasant life in Holland, Bernard Blommers was President of the Dutch Academy of Painters and a first generation member of the Hague School* of painting.
Early in his career, he learned lithography* and then studied at the Hague Academie of Art under Johan Philip Koelman. His early painting subjects were primarily genre subjects of fishermen and their wives and were heavily influenced by Hague School painter Jozef Israels. Blommers later work (showing 500 of 1183 characters). |
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