Milking time
Oil on canvas, 38 x 45 cm
Signed lower right: Gerard Bilders '64
Gerard Bilders is accepted as the founder of the hague school, active during his stay at his father's atelier in Oosterbeek (Gelderland). His early death stopped a genial painter who gave inspiration to painters like Willem Roelofs, Paul Gabriel and later also to his father Johannes H.W. Bilders.
Literature: J. Knoef: Een eeuw Nederlandse schilderkunst, Amsterdam 1948, met ill. pg 84-85.
H.F.W. Jeltes: Gerard Bilders, een schildersleven in het midden van de 19de eeuw, Den Haag 1947, pg. 85-86.
Provenance:
Veiling Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 11-06-1974, lot 55.
