Born: 27 January 1756
Birthplace: Salzburg, Austria
Died: 5 December 1791 (fever)
Best Known As: Composer of Eine kleine Nachtmusik Related Paintings of wolfgang amadeus mozart :. | handel s memorial in westminster abbey | handel playing one of his organ concertos at the covent carden theatre in london. | a contemporary artist s view of the structure erected in green park for the 1749 firework display celebrating the peace of aix la chapelle. | george frideric handel | Anonymous painting Hamburg, one of the most important Hanseatic port | Related Artists:
William J. McCloskeypainted Lady Apples in Overturned Basket. Signed W.J. McCloskey in 1941
United States (1859- 1941 ) - Painter
Jacques CharlierFrench Miniaturist, ca.1705-1790
Jacob Maris (August 25, 1837, The Hague - August 7, 1899, Karlsbad) 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.
Maris studied at the Antwerp Academy, and subsequently in Hubertus van Hove's studio during a stay in Paris from 1865 till 1871. He returned to Holland when the Franco-Prussian War broke out, and died there in August 1899. Though he painted, especially in early life, domestic scenes and interiors invested with deeply sympathetic feeling, it is as a landscape painter that Maris excelled. He was the painter of bridges and windmills, of old quays, massive towers, and level banks; even more was he the painter of water, and misty skies, and chasing clouds. In all his works, whether in water or oil color, and in his etchings, the subject is always subordinate to the effect. His art is suggestive rather than decorative, and his force does not seem to depend on any preconceived method, such as a synthetical treatment of form or gradations of tone. And yet, though his means appear so simple, the artist's mind seems to communicate with the spectator's by directness of pictorial instinct, and we have only to observe the admirable balance of composition and truthful perspective to understand the sure knowledge of his business that underlies such purely impressionist handling.