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Andreas Schelfhout
7 quotes
“[four years younger!], you better paint houses, you better focus yourself on townscapes. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)”
Andreas Schelfhout (1787–1870) first seen 1814 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: short quote of Schelfhout, c. 1814; as cited in 'Van IJs naar Sneeuw - De ontwikkeling van het wintergezicht in de 19de eeuw', by Arsine Nazarian, July 2008 Utrecht Student-number: 03609533.8
“Cheerfully and cheerily, I started working once more in giant steps to the second painting by Mr Twent. [of the , then owned by Abraham Jacob , who wanted his estate immortalized in two large paintings] (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)”
Andreas Schelfhout (1787–1870) first seen 1823 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote from Schelfhout, in a letter (with sketched figures) to an unknown friend, 21 Feb. 1823; as cited in Andreas Schelfhout - landschapschilder in Den Haag, Cyp Quarles van Ufford, Primavera Pers, (ISBN 978-90-5997-06…
“Here are 3 drawings that I have made for You. It will be satisfactory, if it will meet your expectation and what it is for [to make a painting]. The two landscapes are thoughts, but the one that suggests the moonlight is the castle at Doorenwaart in Gelderland. I also painted a painting of that subject which I enjoyed a lot in Amsterdam [because, purchased there by A. B. Roothaan there] (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)”
Andreas Schelfhout (1787–1870) first seen 1823 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote of Schelfhout in his letter to , 2 Dec. 1823; as cited in Andreas Schelfhout - landschapschilder in Den Haag, Cyp Quarles van Ufford, Primavera Pers, (ISBN 978-90-5997-066-3), Leiden, p. 49
“You can't sell anything to the museum nowadays. If one presents something now, one is partly rejected because they have no money in cash. Yes Friend, that's how things are going.. .It's going very bad here with the old arts in The Hague., I hardly hear of anything. How are things going in Rotterdam? I believe that also there is not much moving. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)”
Andreas Schelfhout (1787–1870) first seen 1825 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote from Schelfhout's letter to , 8 Jan. 1825; original text from the letter in the collection of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Royal Library), The Hague, no. 133 C12
“..[both of us (Schelfhout ànd J.C. Schotel)] make each a painting that together will form one view, as it were [view of Scheveningen by Schotel / view of The Hague by Schelfhout].. ..[but] our paintings together will therefore not become one integrated thing, but only pendants.. .I have taken my drawing from the steps of the Pavilion [in Scheveningen], viewed over the dunes to [the city] The Hague. In the foreground, which is very bare and empty in reality, I have placed some trees. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)”
Andreas Schelfhout (1787–1870) first seen 1828 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a letter to , 18 Nov. 1828; in: collective Stadsarchief van ErfgoedCentrum DIEP, Dordtrecht, No. 48-d
“..and since we are now living in the Summer-time, I don't have a trick to imagine me Winter so strongly that I would be able to paint one [a winter-landscape].. ..and you must have patience until next winter. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)”
Andreas Schelfhout (1787–1870) first seen 1832 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote of Schelfhout in a letter to his client , June 1832; as cited in 'Andreas Schelfhout Onsterfelijk schoon', Simonis & Buunk 2005, p. 17
“..when the terrible storm and high flood of water raged most fearfully, I went to Schevelinge.. ..sea and sky seemed to be one [undivided] element; at the height where I stood - because the sea had already washed away dunes and stood up to the village – the view was horrible; the wailing of the inhabitants awful. - when arriving home, I immediately put a sketch of all this on paper - but that sketch represented so little of what I had seen on the spot itself.. ..[where] no part turned up itself of which I could make a sketch.. ..[so it] will be necessary for me to return to Scheveningen again and to outline those places where the water has raged most violently.. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)”
Andreas Schelfhout (1787–1870) first seen 1825 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote of Schelfhout in his letter to , 10 Feb. 1825; the original letter is in the collection of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Den Haag, inv. Nr: 133 C12, nr. 4