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ANTON MAUVE (1838–1888)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 917 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MAUVE (1838–1888)  , Dutch landscape painter, was born at Zaandam, the son of a Baptist minister . Much against the wish of his parents he took up the study of
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art and entered the studio of
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Van Os, whose dry
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academic manner had, however, but little attraction for him . He benefited far more by his intimacy with his friends Jozef Israels and W . Maris . Encouraged by their example he abandoned his early tight and highly finished manner for a freer, looser method of
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painting, and the brilliant palette of his youthful
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work for a
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tender lyric harmony which is generally restricted to delicate greys, greens, and
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light blue . He excelled in rendering the soft hazy atmosphere that lingers over the green meadows of Holland, and devoted himself almost exclusively to depicting the peaceful rural
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life of the fields and country lanes of Holland—especially of the districts near Oosterbeek and Wolfhezen, the sand
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dunes of the coast at
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Scheveningen, and the country near Laren, where he spent the last years of his life . A little sad and melancholy, his pastoral scenes are nevertheless conceived in a peaceful soothing lyrical
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mood, which is in marked contrast to the epic power and almost tragic intensity of J . F . Millet . There are fourteen of Mauve's pictures at the Mesdag Museum at the Hague, and two (" Milking Time " and " A Fishing Boat putting to Sea ") at the Ryks Museum in Amsterdam . The
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Glasgow Corporation Gallery owns his painting of " A
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Flock of Sheep." The finest and most representative private collection of pictures by Mauve was made by Mr J . C .

J . Drucker,

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London .

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