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1844–1910 Netherlands

Willem Maris (18 February 1844, The Hague – 10 October 1910, The Hague) was a Dutch landscape painter of the Hague School, like his two brothers, Jacob Maris and Matthijs Maris. Willem was famous for his paintings with cows in the meadow in the daylight.

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The cow exists for the light that comes to glide along and over the animal - the light doesn't exist for he cow.

As far as I can remember, it was about 25 or 26 years ago that Breitner [his pupil then] painted with me in 'Huize Rozenburg' [The Hague].. .There I had a large garden where he painted his dragoons with horses, posing there in front of him..

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