Jacob Hendricus Maris

Background

Jacob Maris was born on August 25, 1837, in The Hague.

Education

Maris first studied at the Antwerp Academy, and subsequently in Hebert's studio during a stay in Paris from 1865 till 1871.

Career

His early work contained figures (children, young women), but he is best known for the landscapes he began painting about 1872. These include scenes from the Dutch countryside of bridges and windmills, old quays, massive towers, and level banks, against misty skies or chasing clouds. In all his paintings, whether in watercolour or oil, and in his etchings, the subject is subordinate to the atmospheric effect, as in the Grey Tower, Old Amsterdam (c. 1880) and Landscape near Dordrecht (c. 1870). This mastery of atmosphere influenced many of his contemporaries.

Maris returned to Holland when the Franco-Prussian War broke out, and died there on August 7, 1899, he was buried in The Hague.

Achievements

• Jacob Hendricus Maris was the most important and influential Dutch landscape painter of the last quarter of the nineteenth century.

Membership

In 1871, Jacob Maris became a member of the Pulchri Studio.

Connections

Brother:

Matthias Marris

Matthias Marris was a Dutch painter, etcher and lithographer.

Brother:

Willem Maris

Willem Maris was a Dutch landscape painter of the Hague School.