LARGE WILLEM DE ZWART ANTIQUE DUTCH LANDSCAPE OIL PAINTING OLD OCEAN BEACH 1920s

  

EXTRAORDINARY ANTIQUE DUTCH IMPRESSIONIST LANDSCAPE OIL PAINTING ON BOARD BY REVERED DUTCH PAINTER WILLEM DE ZWART. THIS WORK DEPICTS A MESMERIZING COASTAL BEACH SCENE IN HOLLAND. A VAST EXPANSE OF A CALM BLUE OCEAN DOTTED WITH SAILBOATS DOMINATES THE FOREGROUND, GENTLY LAPPING AGAINST A SANDY BEACH.

BEYOND THE SHORELINE, QUAINT VILLAS WITH TILE ROOFS PEEK OUT FROM LUSH GREENERY NESTLED AGAINST ROLLING HILLS THAT GRADUALLY GIVE WAY TO MAJESTIC MOUNTAINS IN THE DISTANCE. THE SOFT, HAZY ATMOSPHERE CREATES A DREAMLIKE SETTING, INVITING VIEWERS TO IMMERSE THEMSELVES IN THE TRANQUILITY OF THIS IDYLLIC SEASIDE GETAWAY. A TRUE MASTERPIECE BY ONE OF HOLLAND'S MOST REVERED MASTERS, WILLEM DE ZWART. BEAUTIFULLY HOUSED IN A VINTAGE BAROQUE STYLE FRAME FROM SWEDEN.

DIMENSIONS: 69" W x 28" H. Willem De Zwart (1862 - 1931) was active/lived in Holland, Netherlands. Willem De Zwart is known for Impressionist landscape and peasant genre painting, engraving, and watercolor. Born: 1862 - The Hague, Holland.

Died: 1931 - The Hague, Holland. Name variants: William Black, Wilhelmus Hendrikus Petrus Johannes De Zwart, Wilem Zwart. Wilhelmus "Willem" Hendrikus Petrus Johannes Zwart (Also known as William Black) was a Dutch painter, engraver, watercolorist, with many connections to the Hague School and later associated with the Amsterdam Impressionism movement.

Willem De Zwart was born in The Hague on 16 May 1862, the eldest of eight children. His youngest brother, Pieter, would also become a painter. His father painted carriages for a living, and in 1875 the fourteen-year-old Willem was apprenticed to a carriage maker to learn the same trade. In his spare time, he copied prints he found in magazines, and a year later he enrolled in the evening class at the Royal Academy of Visual Art in The Hague. The following year, he was admitted at the studio of Jacob Maris. In the three years that he remained here, it is probable that he got to know many of the leading lights of the Hague School. De Zwart made several copies of works by 16th and 17th century masters in the Mauritshuis.

He was most interested in the works of Johannes Vermeer, Paulus Potter, and Rembrandt, but studied paintings by German and Italian masters, as well. Sometimes he produced copies on commission. In this period, he also made detailed studies of animals, concentrating particularly on their legs, heads and snouts. De Zwart developed a fastidious painting style with a sober, predominantly brown palette. Willem de Zwart lived and worked until 1894 in The Hague and from 1900 to 1905 in Amsterdam.

His work has a wide range of subjects: landscapes, cityscapes, portraits and still life, rendered in a naturalistic or impressionist style. His work shows affinity with the people and city-oriented Amsterdam Impressionism. In his choice of subjects belonged to the Hague School and in his style and his exuberant use of color to the school of Amsterdam Impressionism. He is also known as the "Hague Breitner" because of the similarity of his work to that of George Hendrik Breitner.

He painted his landscapes, figure paintings and still lifes with smooth, bold brushstrokes. De Zwart applied the paint thickly, sometimes straight from the tube, with bright colors, exuberant reds, yellows and blues, giving his paintings special vibrancy.