Hollandse school (XX), omgeving Floris Verster - Vaas met bloemen
Dutch school (XX) near Floris Verster.
Still life: Vase with flowers.
Recognized by the restorer as a "probable work by Floris Verster" but not signed! no coa available, work comes from the Netherlands.
Canvas size: 31 x 41 cm (12. 2 to 16. 14 inches) , size with frame: 44 x 54 cm (17. 32 to 21. 25 inches) in beautiful frame with signs of wear.
Floris Henrik Verster van Wulverhorst (Leiden Netherlands, June 9, 1861 – January 21, 1927) , known as Floris Verster, was a well-known Dutch painter, he mainly painted flower still lifes but also landscapes, cityscapes and sometimes people.
Floris Verster was the eldest of the two sons of Florentius Abraham Verster van Wulverhorst (1826-1923) [4] and Margaretha van Kaathoven. Verster senior, a well-known bird expert after whom a parrot species is named (the Poicephalus senegalus versteri) , worked as an administrator at the National Museum of Natural History in Leiden, where the son often visited and became fascinated by the stuffed animals. Following his father's example, he started drawing animals and thus became aware of mortality and decay. In his later work this remained an important theme, not only in the depiction of dead birds, but also in the wilted flowers that he included in his still lifes.
Verster attended Leiden HBS. From the age of 12, Gerardus Johannes Bos was his drawing and lithography teacher. In 1878-79 he was briefly taught Ars Aemula Naturae by George Breitner at the Leiden academy, with whom he felt a kinship, although he did not adopt Breitner's fierce expressiveness in his painting style.
Breitner, Isaac Israëls and Willem de Zwart were his fellow students at the Academy of Visual Arts in The Hague from 1880, he completed his education in 1884, after which he took lessons for six months with Amédée Bourson in Brussels.
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Dutch school (XX) near Floris Verster.
Still life: Vase with flowers.
Recognized by the restorer as a "probable work by Floris Verster" but not signed! no coa available, work comes from the Netherlands.
Canvas size: 31 x 41 cm (12. 2 to 16. 14 inches) , size with frame: 44 x 54 cm (17. 32 to 21. 25 inches) in beautiful frame with signs of wear.
Floris Henrik Verster van Wulverhorst (Leiden Netherlands, June 9, 1861 – January 21, 1927) , known as Floris Verster, was a well-known Dutch painter, he mainly painted flower still lifes but also landscapes, cityscapes and sometimes people.
Floris Verster was the eldest of the two sons of Florentius Abraham Verster van Wulverhorst (1826-1923) [4] and Margaretha van Kaathoven. Verster senior, a well-known bird expert after whom a parrot species is named (the Poicephalus senegalus versteri) , worked as an administrator at the National Museum of Natural History in Leiden, where the son often visited and became fascinated by the stuffed animals. Following his father's example, he started drawing animals and thus became aware of mortality and decay. In his later work this remained an important theme, not only in the depiction of dead birds, but also in the wilted flowers that he included in his still lifes.
Verster attended Leiden HBS. From the age of 12, Gerardus Johannes Bos was his drawing and lithography teacher. In 1878-79 he was briefly taught Ars Aemula Naturae by George Breitner at the Leiden academy, with whom he felt a kinship, although he did not adopt Breitner's fierce expressiveness in his painting style.
Breitner, Isaac Israëls and Willem de Zwart were his fellow students at the Academy of Visual Arts in The Hague from 1880, he completed his education in 1884, after which he took lessons for six months with Amédée Bourson in Brussels.
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