# MARIS, Jacobus Hendricus [View the canonical artist record]() ## Artist - Lifespan: 1837–1899 - Profession: painter - School: Dutch ## Biography Dutch painter, part of a family of painters. By the age of 12 he was apprenticed to Johannes Stroebel \(1821-1905\), and from 1850 he attended classes at the Academie in The Hague. In 1854 he accompanied his teacher, Huib van Hove \(1814-1864\), to Antwerp, where he attended evening classes at the Academie for two years and made contact with Louis Meijer \(1809-1866\), the marine painter. In 1855 he was joined in Antwerp by his brother Matthijs Maris, with whom he shared a workshop and house. For a short period their friend and fellow student Laurens Alma-Tadema came to live with them. They lived on Matthijs's grant and made small paintings, based on 17th-century Dutch genre pictures, for the American market. From 1865 he was in Paris as a pupil of Ernest Hébert \(1817-1908\) and was influenced by the Barbizon School. He exhibited at the Salon from 1866. From 1870 he lived in The Hague, painting Dutch landscapes with loose brushworks. ## Related artworks - [Allotment Gardens near The Hague]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()