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Description: | Signed: yes Description: Petrus van Schendel was Dutch, but trained in Antwerp and moved to Brussels in 1845. He exhibited throughout Holland and Belgium and won several prizes including a gold medal for a painting of a market scene lit by moonlight, a format evident here. He drew upon Dutch seventeenth-century paintings of interiors lit by candlelight to produce his finely wrought compositions. Close observation of this painting reveals the detail that emerges out of the tenebrous night. Admired by such eminent collectors as Queen Victoria, William Smith's gift was the focus of much attention when the Brighouse Gallery first opened. | Subjects: | everyday life; townscape; trade and industry | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Schendel, Petrus van (Dutch painter, 1806-1870) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8868... | Go to resource |
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