Jacob Hendricus Maris (August 25, 1837, The Hague – August 7, 1899, Karlsbad) was a Dutch painter, who next his brothers Willem and Matthijs belonged to what has attain be known as the Hague School of painters. He was considered to be the most important and influential Dutch landscape painter of the last quarter of the nineteenth century. His first theoretical was painter J.A.B. Stroebel who taught him the art of painting from 1849 to 1852. Jacob Maris’s most known works are the series of portraits of the royal House of Orange, he worked on these similar to his brother Matthijs Maris. He is as well as known for his portraits of landscapes like “Schip on the Scheveningen beach”.
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