Jacob Maris
Dutch painter
Died when: 61 years 347 days (743 months)Star Sign: Virgo
Jacob Hendricus Maris (August 25, 1837 – August 7, 1899) 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.
He was considered to be the most important and influential Dutch landscape painter of the last quarter of the nineteenth century.
His first teacher was painter J.A.B.Stroebel who taught him the art of painting from 1849 to 1852.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.
He is also known for landscapes such as Ship on the Scheveningen beach.
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