Wouterus Verschuur (11 June 1812 – 4 July 1874) was a

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painter of animal subjects – mainly horses – and of

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. He is one of the later representatives of

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Life and career

Born to an Amsterdam jeweller, Verschuur received his training from the landscape and cattle painters

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and Cornelis Steffelaar. As part of this education Verschuur had to copy works by the 17th century painter

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, like Wouwerman Verschuur’s subjects consist mostly of stable scenes, landscapes with horses and coastal landscapes. Showing talent from an early age, at 15 Verschuur had a painting exhibited at the “

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” at Amsterdam in 1828. In 1832 and 1833 he won the gold medal at the annual exhibition at

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. In 1833 he was appointed a member of the Royal Academy in Amsterdam. In 1839 he joined the artists’ society, Arti et Amicitiae. His reputation was also considerable abroad. He was often featured in the annual exhibitions which travelled the large European cities at that time. In 1855

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purchased one of his paintings at the '' Exposition Universelle'' in Paris."Poezie der werkelijkheid": Luuk Pijl, p.121 The popularity of his paintings provided him with sufficient funds to travel widely. He made frequent trips to

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and Brabant and abroad to Switzerland and Germany. In 1874, on one of his trips to Gelderland, he died on 4 July in the town of

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. He left behind an oeuvre of about four hundred paintings and over two thousand drawings. Amongst his students were his son, Wouterus Verschuur Jr. and

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. 'A grey and a black horse with stable boys', a 69x59 cm oil on panel was sold at Christie's Amsterdam in 1998 for $451,165. File:Horses in a stable.jpg, Horses in a stable File:Wouterus Verschuur - Lezende man en twee honden in een intrieur.png, Reading man and two dogs File:Wouterus Verschuur - Paarden en personen op een binnenplaats.png, Horses and people
in a courtyard File:Wouterus Verschuur - In de stal.png, In the stables

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