Abraham Hulk Snr
British, (1813-1897)
Sailing Boats off the Dutch Coast
Oil on canvas, signed
Image size: 10.75 inches x 16 inches
Size including frame: 15.25 inches x 20.5 inches
Provenance: W.H. Patterson, 19 Albemarle Street, London
A fine seascape painting of fishing boats off a Dutch coast by Abraham Hulk Senior. A rowing boat can be seen coming ashore as others moor their boats by a jetty. Meanwhile, other vessels are shown sailing in the mouth of the harbour beyond and in the distance.
Abraham Hulk was born in Shoreditch, London on 1 May 1813 the son of a Henrik Hulk, a Dutch merchant and Mary Burroughs. His brother Johannes (John) Frederick Hulk (1829-1911) was a canal and townscape painter, whom he also taught and together they founded a family of Anglo-Dutch artists. His sons Abraham Hulk Jnr (1851-1922), Hendrick Hulk (1842-1937) and William Frederick Hulk (1852-1922) and his nephew Johannes Frederik Hulk (1855–1913) also became artists.
He studi
...ed at the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam under Jean Augustin Daiwaille (1786–1850) and initially focused on portraits. However, in 1833, he began travelling and visited America where he exhibited in Boston. Perhaps inspired by his travels and also influenced by the Dutch romantic painters, he started to paint seascapes. By 1834, he had returned to Holland and lived in a number of locations including Haarlem and Amsterdam. He exhibited in Holland at the Leeuwarden and The Hague from 1843.
Hulk married Maria Wilhelmina van der Meulen in Amsterdam on 2 November 1837 and together they had 5 children. In 1870, he moved the family to London where he would remain for the rest of his life and lived in Mornington Road, St Pancras. Hulk exhibited at the Society of British Artists and enjoyed considerable success in England as a marine painter. He died on 25 March 1897 in Zevenaar whilst on a visit to the Netherlands.
Examples of his work can be found in the Amsterdam Museum, Teylers Museum, Haalem, Dordrecht, and Enschede Museums.
Presentation: The work is housed in a new, English made gilt frame which is in excellent condition The reverse bears a label for W.H. Patterson a fine art gallery founded in 1964 by Bill Patterson and based at 19 Albemarle Street, London. The company was bought by the dealership Gladwell & Company in 2004. The details on the label indicate the painting was owned by Patterson’s before 1990.
Condition: As with all of our original antique oil paintings, this work is offered in ready to hang gallery condition, having been professionally cleaned, restored and revarnished.
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Antique ID Number (AIDN): SA1187008
Dateline of this antique is 1880
Height is 39cm (15.4inches)Width is 52cm (20.5inches)Depth is 7cm (2.8inches)
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