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Jacob VAN STRIJ (Circle of)
Dordrecht, 1756 - 1815
Oil on panel
46 x 60 cm (64.5 x 79 cm with frame)
Inscription on the back “Van der Eyden?”
Very beautiful 19th century frame in gilded wood
Jacob van Strij studied at the Antwerp painting academy with the Antwerp painter Andreas Lens. Back in Dordrecht, he became a landscape painter. Alone and together with his brother Abraham, he painted various wallpapers for clients in Dordrecht. He first worked in the painting studio of his father Leendert van Strij. He was also greatly inspired by 17th century landscape painters, in particular Albert Cuyp.
His son Hendrik Johannes van Strij, like his father, uncle and grandfather, became a painter.
According to Jacob van Strij's biographer Johannes Immerzeel, "His passion and concern for faithfully imitating nature went so far that Van Strij, however ill he was (for years Van Strij was plagued by gout) he asked someone to pull his sled along the ice in the biting cold in order to make sketches for his paintings, which he then executed in his studio”.
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