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Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch Quotes

1824–1903 Netherlands

Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch, also known as Hendrik Johannes Weissenbruch, (The Hague, 19 June 1824 - The Hague 24 March 1903) was a Dutch landscape-painter of Dutch Impressionism and leading figure in the Hague School.

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Better send in one good picture than a lot of poor ones, but then that good one must be so good that it almost walks out of the frame and becomes a portion of nature itself.

Weissenbruch to Anton Mauve: He [ Vincent van Gogh ] is drawing damn well, I could paint after his studies.

Weissenbruch to Vincent van Gogh: ..now that I have seen your work, I will take sides for you. They call me 'the sword without mercy', and I am - and I would not have said anything like that to Anton Mauve about you if I had not found any good in your sketches.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.