Charles Paul Gruppe - Dutch Landscape

The Canadian-born artist spent much of his time in the Netherlands, particularly before the First World War, and was strongly drawn to the style of the Hague School. Gruppe was born in Canada and, after the death of his father, emigrated with his family to Rochester, New York, where he grew up. He worked in a drawing and painting shop. With the ambition to become a painter, he traveled to Europe at the age of 21. After stints in Munich and Paris, Gruppe settled in The Hague in 1889.


There he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts and was taught by Hendrik Willem Mesdag, who strongly influenced him. Gruppe learned to speak good Dutch remarkably quickly and was fully accepted into the group of painters of the Hague School whom he admired, including Isaac Israëls, Bernard Blommers, and Anton Mauve. He became a member of the Hague artists' association Pulchri Studio and of Arti et Amicitiae in Amsterdam.


Gruppe is known as a major promoter of Dutch painting in the United States. He died in 1940, aged 80. Atmospheric Dutch landscape in oil on canvas, first quarter of the 20th century, with a ditch in the foreground, grazing sheep, a farmhouse, and a row of trees. Expressive, impasto brushwork and a cloudy sky. Signed Charles Paul Gruppe in the lower left. In a decorative wooden frame.


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