Matthijs Maris

At the age of twelve, he registered at the Hague Academy of Art, but did not pass the entrance exam.

In 1854 he became a pupil of the marine painter Louis Meijer, who helped him obtain a grant from Queen Sophie[1][2] that enabled him to follow his brother Jacob to Antwerp, where they rented rooms together.

A later commission enabled them to travel in and start painting in Oosterbeek with painters as Gerard Bilders and Anton Mauve.

He made portraits, especially of the children of friends such as Baby lessor (private collection, 1880) and Barije Swan (Gemeentemuseum, 1887), the fragile child in her white and gray painted lace dress with fine color accents of yellow lemon and the blue ribbons.

Maris died in London on 22 August 1917, when he was seventy-eight, following a short illness, and was buried there.