Johan Hendrik van Mastenbroek (1875-1945) has become known as a painter of the Rotterdam harbours, the Maas and the Zuiderzee works. His work documents, as it were, the great technical progress and the rapidly increasing activity in the Rotterdam harbors after 1900. The painter liked to sketch outside in rainy weather because of the beauty of the skies and the bright colors: 'I could stand and feast on the wonderful cloud formations and of the color-rich battle between sun and clouds', he wrote to a friend in 1945. Mastenbroek was already widely successful in his lifetime with his impressionistic work. He was one of the best paid painters affiliated with the Haagse Kunstkring and the Hollandsche Teeken-Maatschappij and was a welcome exhibitor at Art et Amicitiae in Amsterdam.

Signature: lower left

Work size: 28 x 39 cm

Provenance: from a Dutch private collection

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