Johannes Anthonie Balthazar Stroebel (1821-1905)

An Album, presented to Stroebel in honour of his seventieth birthday on 23 November 1891, with signatures of admirers and artists from the Hague, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Arnhem, Haarlem, Leiden, Delft and other towns

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Johannes Anthonie Balthazar Stroebel (1821-1905)
An Album, presented to Stroebel in honour of his seventieth birthday on 23 November 1891, with signatures of admirers and artists from the Hague, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Arnhem, Haarlem, Leiden, Delft and other towns
the title page with text 'Ter gelegenheid van den zeventigsten verjaardag van de kunstschilder JOHAN ANTONIE BALTHAZAR STROEBEL op 23 November 1891 hebben zich de vereerders der Nederlandse kunst wier namen hierachter volgen vereenigd om als een nationale hulde aan diens talent diens portret te doen schildered en daaraan eene Eerplaats te verzekeren in het Gemeentelijk Museum van 's Gravenhage.', the following pages signed 'Emma'; 'Sophie Groothertogin van Saxen Prinses der Nederlanden'; 'Marie Prinses van Wied, Prinses der Nederlanden'; and signed by the organising committee and artists on paper strips glued down in the album
in guilded brown leather binding with text 'aan Johan Antonie Balthazar STROEBEL 1821 - 23 November - 1891'
average page 405 x 315 mm.

拍品專文

The names of those who signed include V. de Stuers, B. Blommers, Th. de Bock, J.W. van Borselen, F.J. du Chattel, J. Israels, J. Kruseman, J.W. Klinkenberg, C. Rochussen, L. Apol, M. Bauer, D. Bles, O. Eerelman, H.W. Mesdag, W.C. Nakken, G.J. van de Sande Backhuyzen, P. Zilcken, P. Gabriel, A. Alleb, G.H. Breitner, Th. Schwartze, W. de Famars Testas and many others.
As mentioned on the first page, on the occasion of the artist's seventieth birthday, a large group of fellow artists and admirers of Stroebel initiated his portrait to be painted by P. Josselin de Jong, which was to be hung in the municipal museum, The Hague, where it still is today (H. van Hall, Portraits of Dutch painters and other artists in the low countries, specimen of an Iconographie, Amsterdam, 1963, p. 320)
See illustration on p.