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JACOB MARIS (1837-1899)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 724 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JACOB See also:MARIS (1837-1899)  , Dutch painter, first studied at the See also:Antwerp See also:Academy, and subsequently in See also:Hebert's studio during a stay in See also:Paris from 1865 till 1871 . He returned to See also:Holland when the Franco-Prussian See also:War See also:broke out, and died there in See also:August 1899 . Though he painted, especially in See also:early See also:life, domestic scenes and interiors invested with deeply sympathetic feeling, it is as a landscape painter that See also:Maris will be famous . He was the painter of See also:bridges and windmills, of old quays, massive towers, and level See also:banks; even more was he the painter of See also:water, and misty skies, and See also:chasing clouds . In all his See also:works, whether in water or oil See also:colour, and in his etchings, the subject is always subordinate to the effect . His See also:art is suggestive rather than decorative, and his force does not seem to depend on any preconceived method, such as a synthetical treatment of See also:form or gradations of See also:tone . And yet, though his means appear so See also:simple, the artist's mind seems to communicate with the spectator's by directness of pictorial See also:instinct, and we have only to observe the admirable See also:balance of See also:composition and truthful See also:perspective to understand the sure knowledge of his business that underlies such purely impressionist handling . Maris has shown all that is gravest or brightest in the landscape of Holland, all that is heaviest or clearest in its See also:atmosphere—for instance, in the " See also:Grey See also:Tower, Old See also:Amsterdam," in the " Landscape near See also:Dordrecht," in the " See also:Sea-See also:weed Carts, See also:Scheveningen," in " A See also:Village See also:Scene," and in the numerous other pictures which have been exhibited in the Royal Academy, See also:London, in See also:Edinburgh (1885), Paris, See also:Brussels and Holland, and in various private collections . " No painter," says M . Philippe Zilcken, " has so well expressed the ethereal effects, bathed in See also:air and See also:light through floating silvery mist, in which painters delight, and the characteristic remote horizons blurred by haze; or again, the grey yet luminous See also:weather of Holland, unlike the dead grey See also:rain of See also:England or the heavy See also:sky of Paris." See Max Rooses, Dutch Painters of the Nineteenth See also:Century (London, 1899) ; R . A . M .

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Stevenson, " See also:Jacob Maris," See also:Magazine of Art (1900) ; Ph . Zilcken, Peintres Hollandais modernes (Amsterdam, 1893) ; See also:Jan Veth, " Een Studie over Jacob Maris," Onze Kunst (Antwerp, 1902) .

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