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Henri van de Velde (1896-1969). lady portrait. Oil on canvas mounted on panel. Signed on the back.
Henri van de Velde lived and worked in Amsterdam, Laren until 1936, Blaricum, Florence, Amsterdam until 1940, Vreeland until 1949; since then in Abcoude.
Henri van de Velde was a student of HM Krabbé and Prof. Dörmer in Munich. He continued his studies in Paris and Florence. Was a member of St. Lucas and Arti et Amicitiae in Amsterdam.
He painted, drew (also pastel and pen), watercoloured, etched and lithographed; in the beginning of his career compositions with animals and later almost exclusively figures with biblical or mythological subjects.
In 1929 he had the farm 'de Zeven Linden' in Blaricum converted into a studio home by the architect Wouter Hamdorff. Later he moved to a farm on Kerklaan in Blaricum.