De Sint-Sebastiaansdoelen aan het Singel te Amsterdam 1880

Cornelis Springer

Black chalkChalk
66 ⨯ 84 cm
ConditionExcellent
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• About the artwork
  CORNELIS SPRINGER (1817- 1891)
  
  De Sint-Sebastiaansdoelen aan het Singel te Amsterdam
  
  Signed and dated | Black chalk on paper
  
  Provenance: Auction Frederik Muller 1 december 1891 lot 61 (ateliernalatenschap); Kunsthandel Goudstikker, Amsterdam; Collection W.J.R. Dreesmann; Auction: Frederik Muller 22 maart 1960, lotno. 548; Auction Mak van Waay Amsterdam 19 mei 1965, lotno. 499; Private collection
  
  Literature: Willem Laanstra, Cornelis Springer Geschilderde Steden, Amsterdam 1994, p. 152
  
  Cornelis Springer belongs to the leading painters of Dutch Romanticism. He became a member of the Amsterdam painters collective Felix Meritis and won a gold medal for a painting of a church interior in 1847. He was awarded the Leopold order of Belgium in 1865, and in 1878 he was invited with Jozef Israëls to advise the Dutch Ministry of Public Affairs on the plans for the Rijksmuseum. He is known for paintings, etchings, and drawings, especially of city views and town scenes in which facades and staffage are bathed in warm sunlight. Springer often assigns a prominent place to 17th and 18th century buildings in his paintings. Sometimes this is in the form of an imaginative piece of architecture, but in most cases these were existing buildings in which people rediscovered their beauty in around 1850. Springer first made a detailed sketch of these buildings which he later reworked into a painting. This drawing is a great example of his skills. As known so far this drawing has always been in the studio of Cornelis Springer and was sold after his dead by auction in December
  
• About the artist

  Cornelis Springer was a Dutch painter and born in Amsterdam on the 25th of May in 1817.
  He became famous for his oil paintings and watercolours of romantic city scenes.

  Dutch Romanticism

  Cornelis Springer belongs to the leading painters of Dutch Romanticism. He became a member of the Amsterdam painters collective Felix Meritis and won a gold medal for a painting of a church interior in 1847. He was awarded the Leopold order of Belgium in 1865, and in 1878 he was invited with Jozef Israëls to advise the Dutch Ministry of Public Affairs on the plans for the Rijksmuseum.

  His artworks

  He is known for paintings, etchings, and drawings, especially of city views and town scenes in which facades and staffage are bathed in warm sunlight. Cornelis Springer often assigns a prominent place to 17th and 118th-century buildings in his paintings. Sometimes this is in the form of an imaginative piece of architecture, but in most cases, these were existing buildings in which people rediscovered their beauty in around 1850. Springer first made a detailed sketch of these buildings which he later reworked into a painting.

  Leonard Springer

  On the 24th of January in 1855 in Amsterdam the son of Springer, Leonard was born. Leonard became a famous Dutch garden architect. Cornelis Springer died on the 20th of February in 1891 in Hilversum.

  Legacy 

  He left about 650 works as a legacy. Amongst many the "Grote of Sint-Michaëlskerk in Zwolle" (1862), "Lübeck, Stadhuis" (1885) and "De Delftse vaart en de Laurenskerk in Rotterdam", Cityscape in Antwerp.