(224 b) Otto EERELMAN

(Groningen, 1839 1926)

Horse print

Chromolithograph

17 3/4" x 23 1/4"

LR: O. Eerelman

SOLD

From a portfolio of 41 prints, Het Groninger Paard

Text by E.A.L. Quadekker

Lithography by J. L. Goffart

Published by Zutphen-Schillemans & van Belkum

          During the Victorian period, animal pictures and portraits were very popular.  Many artists made depictions of animals their specialty.  Eerelman was a watercolorist, sketcher, and animal and genre scene painter active in the Netherlands at the turn of the century, studying under J.H. Egenberger at the Minerva Academy in Groningen.  In 1867 he studied in Paris at the Antwerp Academy, as well as in Brussels from 1874 to 1876.  Eerelman lived in The Hague and Arnhem, and then returned to Groningen in 1907, where he taught at the Minerva Academy.  He most often focused on horses and canines.

          This print is from a portfolio of forty-one prints in which Eerelman illustrated many different breeds of horse.  The color lithographs were accompanied by text by J. L. Goffart that described each breeds attributes.