ARTIST: Adrianus Johannes Jansen (Netherlands, 1863 - 1945)
TITLE: Sail Ship L'Avenir
YEAR: 1937
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
CONDITION: Few small patches. Some paint losses. Some craquelure. No visible inpaint under UV light. Some damages to frame.
ART SIZE: 17 x 22 inches / 43 x 55 cm
FRAME SIZE: 21 x 26 inches / 53 x 66 cm
SIGNATURE: lower right
NAME VARIANTS: Arie, Harry Jansen
CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online
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BIOGRAPHY:
Adrianus Johannes Jansen was a Dutch ship-portrait painter who was born in Gouda on 20th April 1863 as the second and only surviving child of Pieter Jansen, at that time a '?dyer's assistant', and his wife Johanna Maria, nee Snelleman. Both were Roman Catholics from Gouda and married there in 1860. Jansen's mother appears to have died before 1885. Jansen moved to Rotterdam by early December 1884, where his father and stepmother joined him. They apparently did so to help him start running a cafe and bar at Westerkade 17 on the Nieuwe Maas waterfront. He had by then married, in 1886, Hendrika Christina Gentrop. They had two children, a daughter and a son, the latter dying in 1891 aged only three. In June 1899 Jansen was elected Second Secretary of the Dutch Athletics Association and by August was First Secretary of the Rotterdam Athletics Association as well.