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Willem Leendert Bruckman (1866-1928)
Signature: Lower right
Size work: 50x34 cm
The work is pasted on a cardboard background with the dimensions: 68 x 51 cm. Before he died in 1897, Bruckman regularly traveled to Belgium and France to make sketches and drawings. The details on the work offered are beautiful. If you study the drawing see the artist at work. The drawing is partly colored, which is characteristic of a preliminary study. It is a unique work that is offered because works by Bruckman are rarely offered.
Biography
Willem Leendert Bruckman was born in The Hague on 11 March 1866. Bruckman studied architecture and painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague. In 1897 he moved to England, where he worked as a painter and illustrator. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours and the Pastel Society in London; the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool; the Royal West of England Academy in Bristol; and the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts. He lived in London during this period and later in Great Bardfield, Essex. He died in Laren in the Netherlands in 1928.