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Auguste Van Hier
Dutch shipping in a calm

late 19th Century

$6,492.09
£4,800
€5,860.49
CA$9,257.71
A$9,492.22
CHF 5,408.32
MX$120,827.85
NOK 62,122.69
SEK 64,816.36
DKK 43,808.35

About the Item

Augustus van Hier 1834 -1905 While art records occasionally spell his surname as "Van Heir", his works are officially signed and recognized under the Dutch spelling Van Hier. He was a 19th-century landscape and maritime artist. He is best known for his atmospheric oil paintings of Dutch fishing boats at dusk, moonlit coastal views, and wintry landscapes. Van Heir was an artist who was born in 1834. While he remains a relatively enigmatic figure in art history with few surviving personal records, his work speaks volumes about the popular artistic movements of his era. Born in the Netherlands in 1834, Van Hier grew up during a period when Dutch art was transitioning away from rigid Romanticism towards realism and atmospheric landscape painting. He lived and worked through the height of the Hague School movement—a Dutch art movement heavily inspired by the French Barbizon School, which emphasized gritty realism, moody lighting, and the beauty of everyday rural life. Van Hier established himself as a dedicated landscape and maritime painter. He is highly regarded by art collectors for his mastery of luminism—the dramatic depiction of light and its reflection on natural surfaces like water and snow .His body of work almost exclusively focuses on traditional Dutch scenes. His most famous and commercially frequent pieces feature traditional Dutch fishing boats (Bomschuiten) resting on the shore or sailing through choppy waters during the golden hour or deep twilight. He had a distinct talent for rendering moonlit reflections on calm waters, contrasting cool night tones with the warm glow of lanterns or distant cottage windows as in this picture. Beyond the ocean, he frequently painted frozen Dutch canals flanked by windmills and bare trees under dramatic, wintry sunset skies. Van Hier continued to paint into the turn of the century, passing away in 1905. Today, he is remembered as a skilled "minor master" of the 19th-century Dutch school. Because he captured the quintessential, romanticised imagery of traditional Dutch life right before the onset of modern industrialization, his paintings remain highly collectible. His oil paintings frequently appear in fine art auctions across Europe and the United Kingdom, preserving his legacy as a brilliant observer of light and shadow. This painting is signed.
  • Creator:
    Auguste Van Hier (1834 - 1905, Dutch)
  • Creation Year:
    late 19th Century
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 27 in (68.58 cm)Width: 49.25 in (125.1 cm)Depth: 2.5 in (6.35 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    Douglas, GB
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: No. 4741stDibs: LU2373218490312

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