Meerkerk, Clearing up after Rain

Artist Alexander Mollinger (Utrecht, Netherlands, 1836 - 1867)

Date1866

Mediumoil on canvas

ClassificationsPaintings And Drawings

DimensionsHeight: 41.8 cm, Width: 68.5 cm
Frame Size: 65.2 × 92.2 × 10.4cm

AcquisitionAlexander Macdonald Bequest, 1901.

CopyrightOut of copyright - CC0

LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub

Object numberABDAG004488

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About MeGerrit Mollinger was a talented artist, whose work was greatly admired by his peers, but his life was cut cruelly short by consumption and he died at the age of only thirty-one.

Nevertheless he had an enormous effect on his Scottish artist friends, including George Reid, who adopted Mollinger's distinctive tonal treatment and emphasis on the horizontal.

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Despite succumbing early to TB, Mollinger had an enormous effect on his Scottish artist friends, including Aberdeen's George Reid who adopted his tonal palette an emphasis on the horizontal