_Jacob Maris_ (Dutch: 1837-1899).
Two small pictures by one of the principal masters of the
modern Dutch School. Jacob Maris was born at The Hague. He
studied in Paris under Hebert, and exhibited at the Salon from
1862 to 1872, when he returned to The Hague. His figure-studies
show, says R. A. M. S., "a perception of the rich but quiet
tissue of colour which wraps all Nature if you look at it
broadly enough." In landscape he and his brother Matthew are
the chief of modern Dutch painters.