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| Title | Landscape with Water Mill | |
| Collection | Sheffield Galleries & Museums Trust | |
| Artist | After Hobbema, Meindert (Dutch painter, 1638-1709) | |
| Date Earliest | possibly about 1800 | |
| Date Latest | possibly about 1850 | |
| Description | This copy of a painting by Meindart Hobbema represents a watermill and a pool on the left in a landscape with trees and cottages. On the right side two peasants watch a men in a red coat, who is moving a tree trunk. There are several paintings by Hobbema which depicting this watermill, but from different angles. Hobbema lived and worked in Amsterdam all his life. He was Jacob van Ruisdaels' most talented pupil and follower. He was also influenced by Salomon van Ruisdael, Cornelis Vroom, and perhaps Anthonie van Bossum. Hobbema's favoured motifs are water mills, forest scenes and fairly flat landscapes. In 1668 his work almost ground to a halt when he married the kitchen maid of an Amsterdam burgomaster and he received the well-paid position of a wine gauger of the Amsterdam octroi. A wine gauger measures the amount of wine in the vats of vintners and wine consumers. Hobbema retained this new position until the end of his life and this probably prevented him from painting more than occasionally. | |
| Current Accession Number | 455 | |
| Subject | landscape; figure | |
| Measurements | 143.2 x 111.8 cm cm (estimate) | |
| Material | oil on panel | |
| Acquisition Details | Given by J. G. Graves 1937. | |
| Provenance | W. Campbell Collection, Tullichonan Castle, Almandrin, Dumbartonshire sale; acquired by Gallery Sedelmeyer, Paris, 1896; J. Porges, Paris; anonymous sale, Christie's, lot 144, 1933, bought by J. G. Graves. | |
| Principal Exhibitions | Dutch Masterpieces, Graves Art Gallery, 1956; Pictures from Yorkshire Galleries, Graves Art Gallery, 1952; Festival of Britain Exhibition, Graves Art Gallery, 1951. | |
| Publications | Bénézit, E. (ed.),Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs Paris,1976; Thieme, U., Becker, F. (ed.) Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, Leipzig, 1980-86; Broulhiet, G., Meindert Hobbema 1638-1709 Paris, 1938; Stechow, W. 'The early years of Hobbema', The Art Quarterly, 22, 1959, pp. 3-18. | |
| Rights Owner | Sheffield Galleries & Museums Trust | |
| Author | Katia Mai | |