The Hague School
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of over 130 paintings and watercolours by artists of The Hague School. This internationally significant collection includes works by Jozef Israëls, Jacob and Matthijs Maris, Anton Mauve, Bernard J Blommers, Johannes Bosboom and Johann Barthold Jongkind. Israëls’ ‘The Frugal Meal’ – which was gifted to collection by the sons of James Reid of Auchterarder in 1896 – inspired Van Gogh to paint ‘The Potato Eaters’. The greatest strength of the collection is the large group of works by Matthjis Maris – probably the largest outside the Netherlands – including an early and important purchase by William Burrell, ‘Butterflies’. Another early purchase by Burrell was by Jongkind – a contemporary and friend of Boudin and Monet – 'Paris, Demolition of the Rue des Francs-Bourgeois' This school of artists worked in and around The Hague, painting the surrounding landscape and the lives of the fishing community.
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