Jacob Maris
(1837 - 1899)
 

Jacob Henricus Maris 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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Maris

 

Towpath
c. 1896
Oil on canvas
40.5 x 51.5 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/Towpath--d8be642920abc792087a5a95cb0d045c?tab=data