Elias Pieter Van Bommel, 1875, A View of Amsterdam, Elias Pieter Van Bommel, 1875, A View of Amsterdam

30 x 54 cm

Dutch painter Elias Pieter Van Bommel, honorary member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam, has interpreted the typical Dutch atmosphere of the 19th century in his works.
His works are highly regarded, with sharp architectural details, as in this fine example. His style is bright, colorful and idyllic. Bommel painted tiny figures, like in the present canvas, within enormous natural environments to contrast the banality of men with the grandeur of creation. The clear sunlight, the rosy clouds and the calm surface of the harbor contribute to the harmonious mood of the work. He trained at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and was a pupil of the Amsterdam landscape painter George Andries Roth. While he began painting landscapes, influenced by the work of his teacher, he later moved on to finely detailed cityscapes populated with figures. Cities such as Rotterdam, Dordrecht and Amsterdam have been sources of inspiration, and he has also made study trips to Belgium, Germany, France and Italy.
Signed and dated “E.P. van Bommel / 1875 "(bottom left).
30 x 54 cm
Oil on canvas