Herman Johannes van der Weele

(1852 - 1930)

 

Herman Johannes van der Weele was a Dutch painter of the second generation of the Hague School. He is the father of Dutch entomologist Herman Willem van der Weele (1879–1910).  

He received advice from Anton Mauve and Johannes Bosboom.  Mauve's influence can be detected in van der Weele's paintings. His compositions have the same simplicity and his choices of subjects are very much like those of Mauve. He painted flocks of sheep, sheep barns, stable interiors, meadows with cows, sand drifts, foresters with horses, farmers plowing with an ox team, milkmaids tending cows, street scenes with coaches, and sand quarries.

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Herder met schaapskudde (Shepherd with a Flock of Sheep)

Oil on canvas

58,7 x 86,6 cm

Private collection