Sunday, June 10, 2018

Drawings by Jacobus van Looy

Jacobus van Looy
Self-portrait
ca. 1885-95
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Jacobus van Looy [also called Jac van Looij] (1855-1930) grew up in an orphanage in Haarlem after the early deaths of his mother and father.  Apprenticed as a house-painter, he yet managed to gain an art training.  In 1884 he won a prize that allowed him to travel and study for two years in Italy, Spain and Morocco.  Returning to the Netherlands he flourished for more than forty years as both fine artist and fiction writer, though little remembered today outside his native country.  After the death of his widow in 1949 their house was transformed into a museum, but it folded in 1967. 

Jacobus van Looy
Man in profile
before 1930
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Jacobus van Looy
Man sitting at a desk
before 1930
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Jacobus van Looy
Newspaper reader
before 1930
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Jacobus van Looy
Seated man reading
before 1930
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Jacobus van Looy
Newspaper reader
before 1930
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Jacobus van Looy
Seated man in theater
before 1930
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Jacobus van Looy
Study of man in cafe
before 1930
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Jacobus van Looy
Seated child
before 1930
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Jacobus van Looy
Standing child
before 1930
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Jacobus van Looy
Drapery study
before 1930
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Jacobus van Looy
Drapery study of sleeve
before 1930
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Jacobus van Looy
Drapery study of trousers
before 1930
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Jacobus van Looy
Study of owl
before 1930
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam