11 Facts About Anton Mauve

Anton Mauve was born on 18 September 1838 in Zaandam, a town in the Dutch province of North Holland.

Anton Mauve was apprenticed to the painter Pieter Frederik van Os followed by Wouter Verschuur.

Anton Mauve was a friend of renowned Dutch landscape painters Jozef Israels and Willem Maris and, encouraged by their example, he abandoned his early highly finished manner for a freer, looser method of painting, and the brilliant palette of his youthful work for a tender lyric harmony which is generally restricted to delicate greys, greens, and light blue.

In 1872, Anton Mauve settled in The Hague where he became a leading member of the Hague School of painters and one of the founders of the Hollandsche Teekenmaatschappij in 1876, as well as playing a leading role in the development of the Pulchri Studio, The Hague's most influential art society at the time.

In November 1874 he married Ariette Carbentus, and together they had a son, Anton Mauve, who became a painter.

Anton Mauve influenced many other painters one of whom was the Scottish painter, Robert McGregor.

Anton Mauve was married to van Gogh's cousin Ariette Sophia Jeannette Carbentus, and he was a major influence on van Gogh, who revered him.

Anton Mauve is mentioned, directly or indirectly, in 152 of van Gogh's surviving letters.

Anton Mauve continued to encourage him and lent him money to rent and furnish a studio, but later grew cold towards him and did not return a number of letters.

The presumption must be that Anton Mauve had heard of the relationship and broke off the association because of it.

Mauve's mother Elisabeth Margaretha Hirschig was a first cousin twice removed of Anton Hirschig, the young Dutch artist who was a fellow lodger with van Gogh at the Auberge Ravoux at the time of van Gogh's death.