Petrus Van der Velden (5 May 1837 – 11 November 1913) was a New Zealand artist of Dutch descent. Van der Velden was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and died in Auckland, New Zealand, 11 Nov 1913. Much of his career was spent in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Originally he trained as a lithographer and ran a lithographic printing works in Rotterdam circa 1858–67, and then went on to study at the academies in Rotterdam and Berlin. He registered at t...
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Petrus Van der Velden (5 May 1837 – 11 November 1913) was a New Zealand artist of Dutch descent. Van der Velden was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and died in Auckland, New Zealand, 11 Nov 1913. Much of his career was spent in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Originally he trained as a lithographer and ran a lithographic printing works in Rotterdam circa 1858–67, and then went on to study at the academies in Rotterdam and Berlin. He registered at the Academy of Art, Rotterdam in 1868. After a stay on the island of Marken (1871–3) he lived in or near The Hague until 1888 and was part of the Hague School in artistic and stylistic origins. During this period he painted mainly genre scenes such as The Dutch Funeral (1872; Christchurch, NZ, McDougall A.G.) and the Old Cellist (1887; The Hague, Gemeentemus.); he also produced some landscapes, for example Snow on the Sand Dunes (1889–90; Wellington, Mus. NZ, Te Papa Tongarewa). His work of this period displays a tension between Naturalism and...
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