(-), Johan Hendrik van Mastenbroek (Rotterdam 1875 -...

Johan Hendrik van Mastenbroek
(Rotterdam 1875 - 1945)
"Een regenbui", Rotterdam
("A Shower of Rain")
Signed and dated 1909 lower left
Signed and titled on a label on the stretcher
Oil on canvas, 64.4 x 90.8 cm
Provenance:
- Collection A. Alistair Rose, Scotland
- Auction Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh, 27 November 2014
- Private collection, Scotland
Note:
Johan Hendrik van Mastenbroek made fame as a painter of the Rotterdam ports. In order to capture the beauty of the alternating skies and colours the artist preferably sketched outside during rain and snow, as he wrote in 1945: "I could enjoy the wonderful formation of clouds and the rich colours that arose from the battle between sun and clouds." Van Mastenbroek's oeuvre documents the great technical progress and the rapidly increasing activity in the Rotterdam ports after 1900.