Jhr. Joan Frans Berg

(Amsterdam 1851 - 's-Graveland 1935)
Op den uitkijk (On watch)
Signed lower right
Signed and titled on the stretcher
Oil on canvas, 85 x 101 cm
Note:
Berg attended the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp at the young age of 17. After leaving the academy, he returned to Amsterdam and became a student of the esteemed painter Petrus Franciscus Greive (1811-1872), who, at that time, specialised in fisherman’s scenes. Joan Berg became famous for depicting country life (mostly of Zeeland).