1. Jacob Henricus Maris was a Dutch painter, who with his brothers Willem and Matthijs belonged to what has come to be known as the Hague School of painters.
12 Facts About Jacob Maris
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Jacob Maris was considered to be the most important and influential Dutch landscape painter of the last quarter of the nineteenth century.
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Jacob Maris's most known works are the series of portraits of the royal House of Orange, he worked on these with his brother Matthijs Maris.
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Jacob Maris is known for landscapes such as Ship on the Scheveningen beach.
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An art dealer recognized his talent and saw to it that Jacob was able to work in the studio of Hubertus van Hove.
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Van Hove moved to Antwerp and the nineteen-year-old Jacob Maris went with him.
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Jacob Maris sold the biggest part of his paintings to private collectors in the United States and in Scotland.
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In 1857, Jacob Maris returned to the Hague, but Matthijs stayed another year in Antwerp before he again shared a studio with Jacob in The Hague.
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Jacob Maris's stroke became broader and larger and his use of color became more subdued and directed towards portraying the atmospheric depiction of clouds.
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Jacob Maris applies the paint thickly, builds it up, fiddles around and messes with it-all gradually developing a harmony of colors that establishes the major directions.
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In 1871, Jacob Maris became a member of the Pulchri Studio and would fill various administrative positions there.
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When he was in his sixties, Jacob Maris began to suffer from asthma and corpulence.