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Anton Mauve (1838-1888)

Aliases: Anthonij Mauve

Professions: Painter; Water color painter; Etcher

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    ANTON MAUVE DUTCH, 1838-1888

    ANTON MAUVE DUTCH, 1838-1888

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    ANTON MAUVE DUTCH, 1838-1888

    ANTON MAUVE DUTCH, 1838-1888

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    Property from a private Midwestern collection

    Property from a private Midwestern collection

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    ANTON MAUVE ZAANDAM 1838 - 1888 ARNHEIM

    ANTON MAUVE ZAANDAM 1838 - 1888 ARNHEIM

Anton Mauve Biography

(b Zaandam, 18 Sept 1838; d Arnhem, 5 Feb 1888). Dutch painter. He came from a large family of clergymen in the province of North Holland. At the age of 16 he was apprenticed to the animal painter Pieter Frederik van Os (1808–92): animals (especially sheep, but also cows and horses) became Mauve’s preferred theme. He then trained for a few months with Wouterus Verschuur, who gave him his love of horses, in the style, at least, of Paulus Potter and Philips Wouwerman. Initially Mauve painted horses above all else—not the shining animals Verschuur painted, but worn-out plodding beasts. In 1858 Mauve joined his much older friend Paul Gabriël on a trip to Oosterbeek, the Dutch Barbizon, where he met Gerard Bilders and Willem Maris, two artists who were to have an enormous influence on him. The premature death of Bilders, a painter with whom he shared emotionalism and fickleness of mood, came as a great shock to Mauve. Apart from Bilders, Willem Maris, who was six years his junior, was a lifelong friend. There are a number of similarities between their work as well as essential differences: Mauve tended to add human figures to his animal pieces, whereas the youngest of the Maris brothers did not; Mauve’s cows, horses and sheep seem more peaceful than Maris’s—at times almost listless. For a long time Mauve was impressed by Maris’s virtuosity as a painter, although he eventually adopted a different style. There is a clear relationship between man and animal or between the animals themselves in Mauve’s paintings, a noticeable difference from Maris’s pictures.

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