Otto Eerelman

He showed an early aptitude for art and, against the wishes of his parents, enrolled at the Academie Minerva in 1860, where he studied with J.H.

[2] He moved to Brussels that year to establish himself as a painter but, for unknown reasons, relocated to The Hague in 1875, where he lived until 1902.

[1] In 1898, an illustrated album called Horse Races was published, containing 40 lithographs of Eerelman's paintings by Richard Schoenbeck (1840-1919).

Later, an annotated collection of his works was translated into English by Clara Bell under the title Horses and Dogs.

For health reasons ("rheumatic neuralgia"), he spent five years in Arnhem, then went back to Groningen in 1907.