Farmer with goat by Suze Bisschop-Robertson
Farmer with goat by Suze Bisschop-Robertson
Farmer with goat by Suze Bisschop-Robertson
Farmer with goat by Suze Bisschop-Robertson
Farmer with goat by Suze Bisschop-Robertson
Farmer with goat by Suze Bisschop-Robertson

Farmer with goat 1880 - 1910

Suze Bisschop-Robertson

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ConditionVery good
€ 925

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  • About the artwork
    Suze Robertson was born in The Hague. Suze Robertson was 2 years old when she lost her mother. She was brought up by an aunt and uncle. They had sent her to a boarding school in Wassenaar. There she received lessons in drawing and music. Apparently she developed her drawing talent there.

    Although her work was related to the Hague School, it was more gloomy than romanticizing. Because she mainly captured her own feelings in her paintings, she is considered a forerunner of expressionism. Charley Toorop was angry when Suze Robertson was forgotten in an exhibition of Dutch painters; she called her the most important artist of the nineteenth century. According to the website of the Huygens Institute for Dutch History. This light drawing is somewhat unusual for her.

    Sources: de rode Scheen, Lexicon of Dutch Visual Artists, 1750-1950 and the aforementioned website.
  • About the artist

    Suze Robertson studied at the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten between 1874-1877. She belonged to the Amsterdamse Joffers group. The Amsterdamse Joffers was a group of women artists in Amsterdam who met weekly in the last quarter of the 19th century to paint and show their works together.

    They were known for their style that followed the example of the Amsterdam Impressionists, and were all members of the Amsterdam artist societies Arti et Amicitiae and Sint Lucas, and most followed the lessons by professor August Allebé of the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten of Amsterdam.

    Until 1882 she taught drawing lessons for girls in Rotterdam while taking lessons on Sundays from Petrus van der Velden in The Hague, and after that chose a career as an artist, her works of simple people in farm interiors and rough scenes of farm life are reminiscent of Van Gogh's early The Potato Eaters and it is said they admired each other's work.

    Suze married in 1892 the painter Richard Robertson and in 1922 she died in her hometown The Hague.
    Suze never dated her works.

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