Julius van de Sande Bakhuyzen. Julius Jacobus van de Sande Bakhuyzen, also Bakhuijzen, was a Dutch landscape painter, etcher and watercolorist.
He is one of the founders of the Hague School. Van de Sande Bakhuyzen was a son of the painter Hendrik van de Sande Bakhuyzen and his wife Sophie Wilhelmina Kiehl.
Like his sister Gerardina, who later became a still life painter, he received his first painting lessons from his father. After school he studied at the Hague Art Academy with Jacobus Everhardus Josephus van den Berg.
He also studied in 1866, together with his friend Philip Sadée, for six months in Düsseldorf, at that time the center of the Düsseldorf School of Painting. Then he settled in his home town.
With the painting Pond in the Hague Forest he won the great royal medal at an exhibition in Amsterdam in 1871. He regularly moved to the country for a few months with Jan Weissenbruch and Willem Roelofs to study nature. From 1875 he spent the summer months in the of heathland dominated province of Drenthe, often together with his sister Gerardina. He viewed this region as a kind of open-air museum and the artists and historians as its conservators. In 1898 he married Susanna Charlotta Alessa Sadée in The Hague. Van de Sande Bakhuyzen was a member of various artist associations, including Arti et Amicitiae and Pulchri Studio.
He is one of the founders of the Hague School. Van de Sande Bakhuyzen was a son of the painter Hendrik van de Sande Bakhuyzen and his wife Sophie Wilhelmina Kiehl.
Like his sister Gerardina, who later became a still life painter, he received his first painting lessons from his father. After school he studied at the Hague Art Academy with Jacobus Everhardus Josephus van den Berg.
He also studied in 1866, together with his friend Philip Sadée, for six months in Düsseldorf, at that time the center of the Düsseldorf School of Painting. Then he settled in his home town.
With the painting Pond in the Hague Forest he won the great royal medal at an exhibition in Amsterdam in 1871. He regularly moved to the country for a few months with Jan Weissenbruch and Willem Roelofs to study nature. From 1875 he spent the summer months in the of heathland dominated province of Drenthe, often together with his sister Gerardina. He viewed this region as a kind of open-air museum and the artists and historians as its conservators. In 1898 he married Susanna Charlotta Alessa Sadée in The Hague. Van de Sande Bakhuyzen was a member of various artist associations, including Arti et Amicitiae and Pulchri Studio.
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