The Mill

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Jacob Maris
Dutch, 1837-1899

The Mill

Oil on canvas
Bequeathed by Mrs Elizabeth Watt, 1917
Museum Number 8-1917

Maris was a landscape painter who was a leading member of The Hague School and was best known for countryside scenes like this one. His atmospheric paintings, in which the main subject was set against a misty sky or scudding clouds, influenced many of his contemporaries.