5.300 €
An outdoor scene with flowers in a basket and fruit on a stone ledge
Oil on canvas : 105,7 X 84,2 cm
Signed lower right “L Hoyer v. Brakel.”
Frame : 110,02 X 88,8 cm
About Louise Hoyer van Brakel
Dutch painter
Rotterdam 1805 – 1871 Braunschweig (Brunswick)
Rare still life painter of flowers and fruit.
Pupil of:
- the portrait and history painter Jacobus Everhardus Josephus van den Berg
- the still life painter Eline Robin
- the history painter Cornelis Groenendael.
Louise grew up in Rotterdam in in a wealthy, distinguished family. Her father was a member of a firm that traded in oil, blubber and grains, he was director in an insurance and loans company and he sat in the Rotterdam city council.
From 1836 onwards van Brakel taught successfully drawing and painting, both in Rotterdam and in The Hague, to young women.
Around 1844 Louise moved to London. That year she already exhibited “a group of fruit and flowers” at the Royal Academy of Arts. There is no more information about our painter after 1844.
According to her family she passed away many years later, in 1871, in Germany.
She never got married.
Why should you buy this painting?
Because it is a nice still life painted by a female artist.
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