Paul Joseph Constantin Gabriel (1828 - 1903) Holland

Paul Joseph Constantin Gabriel (1828 - 1903) Holland
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Known for: Hague School tonalist landscape painting, drawing, watercolor, etching
Biography: Paul Joseph Constantin Gabriel was a painter, draftsman, watercolorist, and etcher who belonged to the Hague School. Gabriel was the son of the sculptor and painter, Paul Joseph Gabriel. From 1840 until 1843 he was educated at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam, where he was a pupil of Louis Zocher. The following year he went to the German town of Cleves, where Barend Cornelis Koekkoek had founded a drawing academy. Later he returned to the Netherlands and studied with Cornelis Lieste in Haarlem. Here he became acquainted with Anton Mauve, with whom he was to work with often. When Gabriel returned to Amsterdam to live, he had a hard time and moved to Brussels. There he was befriended by Willem Roelofs and benefited from Roelof's social position in the art world of Brussels. There he met Hendrik Willem Mesdag, also a student of Roelofs. From 1862 onwards, Gabriel regularly embarked on study trips to the Netherlands: first to Arnhem and Oosterbeek, in 1866 to Veenendaal, in the seventies to Abcoude and Vreeland, and from 1875 to the lakes around Nieuwkoop near Noorden. Around 1880, he spent the summers in Kortenhoef, on Kampereiland and in Giethoorn. He visited the places in Overijssel with Willem Bastiaan Tholen. But it was only in 1864 that Gabriel would permanently return to the Netherlands. At that time he moved to Scheveningen, where he bought a house next to his student Geesje Mesdag-van Calcar. Together they painted still lifes with flowers. In this period he often painted the brook near Voorschoten, as well as in Broeksloot (1886), Oosterbeek (ca. 1887), Kinderdijk and Heeze. In 1886, he stayed with the Mesdags at their home in Vries in Drente, where he made studies of the fields, barns and farms. In this period Gabriel also received recognition in the Netherlands. Museums purchased some of his important pieces, including 'The Pottery in Kampen', purchased by the Hague Gemeentemuseum in 1890. Gabriel died on 23 August 1903 in his home in Scheveningen.
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