page_title: Salomon Verveer
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Salomon Verveer / Biography
caption_attribution_description: English: A view of a town with a bell tower 25 x 33 cm. signed and dated 51 l.r. watercolour over pencil on paper
context_page_description: Salomon Leonardus Verveer was a Dutch marinist and landscape painter. He was one of the most versatile and successful artists at the time of the Dutch romance, both at home and abroad. His sepia gouache and drawings are much appreciated. He is buried at the old Scheveningseweg Jewish cemetery in The Hague. His tomb, a large sarcophagus resting on a catafalque, is one of the most striking monuments in this historic cemetery.
context_section_description: Verveer was a prominent Jewish-Hague painter. He initially painted city and harbor scenes, river landscapes and village scenes. Later, he began painting dunes and Jewish neighborhoods, besides experimenting with charcoal. He was trained as a painter by Bartholomeus Johannes van Hove, worked with Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch and taught Frederik Hendrik Kaemmerer
  He travelled through the Rhine provinces and France, especially Normandy, where he had many possibilities to paint city, village and sea views. In 1836 he was awarded a double silver medal by the Felix Meritis Society, and again at the Brussels Exhibition of 1842 where he received a gold-plated silver medal. At the Brussels Salon of 1845 two paintings were submitted and sold to the Belgian Minister of State, Sylvain Van de Weyer (Leaving for the Market) and the British ambassador George Hamilton Seymour (A vision of Dordrech).
  In 1851, Verveer received the Order of Leopold, awarded to him personally by King Leopold I. At the Paris World Exhibition of 1855, Emperor Napoleon III bought two paintings submitted by Verveer. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the Oak Crown by King William III of the Netherlands on his 25th anniversary in May 1874, and in 1863 knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion.
caption: 1852 watercolour over pencil on paper entitled: Townview with bell tower in the background
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