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| Title | Fishwives on the Beach | |
| Collection | Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums): Kelvingrove Museum | |
| Artist | Blommers, Bernardus Johannes (Dutch artist, 1845-1914) | |
| Date Earliest | about 1875 | |
| Date Latest | probably 1898 | |
| Signed | yes | |
| Description | The life of the Scheveningen fishing community was one of Blommers' favourite themes. He painted numerous fish auctions, as seen here, which until the harbour was built took place on the beach of Scheveningen. The five fishwives in the painting are carrying large straw baskets in which the fish are transported. | |
| Current Accession Number | 825 | |
| Inscription | front lr 'Blommers' | |
| Subject | landscape; figure; animal (fish) | |
| Measurements | 28.2 x 40 cm.0 cm (estimate) | |
| Material | oil on canvas | |
| Acquisition Details | Bequeathed by Adam Teacher 1898. | |
| Principal Exhibitions | A Fashion for Holland, Museum and Art Gallery, Perth, 1968, cat. no. 22. | |
| Publications | Paton, J., Catalogue, Descriptive and Historical, of the Pictures and Sculpture in the Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum Kelvingrove, Glasgow, 1904, cat. no. 108, p. 21, as Dutch Fishwives; Paton, J., Catalogue, Descriptive and Historical, of the Pictures and Sculpture in the Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum Kelvingrove, Glasgow, 1906, cat. no. 108, p. 21, as Dutch Fishwives; Paton, J., Catalogue, Descriptive and Historical, of the Pictures and Sculpture in the Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum Kelvingrove, Glasgow, 1908, cat. no. 108, p. 22, as Dutch Fishwives; Catalogue, Descriptive and Historical, of the Pictures in the Glasgow Art Galleries and Museums, Glasgow, 1935, cat. no. 825, p. 28, as Dutch Fishwives; Miles, H., Dutch and Flemish, Netherlandish and German Paintings, Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, 1961, vol. 1, p. 28, vol. 2, ill. p. 95. | |
| Notes | The group of figures re-appears in a variant of this subject which was in the G. J. sale, Amsterdam, 15 December 1922, lot 221, with reproduction. | |
| Rights Owner | Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums) | |
| Author | Suzanne Veldink | |