ARTIST: Pieter Willem Sebes (Netherlands, 1830 - 1906)
TITLE: Mother with Child
YEAR: 1873
MEDIUM: oil on board
CONDITION: Few very minor paint losses. Minor craquelure. Some scattered inpaintings. Wear to frame.
ART SIZE: 19 x 16 inches / 48 x 40 cm
FRAME SIZE: 27 x 25 inches / 68 x 63 cm
SIGNATURE: lower right and on verso
PROVENANCE: Gray's Auctioneers, Date 2013-03-06, Lot 9
LOCATION: This lot is located at our Dania Beach, FL office.
CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online
AD: ART WANTED: Consign, Trade In, Cash Offer
SKU#: 152018
US SHIPPING: $119 + insurance.

BIOGRAPHY:
In his younger years, the Frisian painter Pieter Sebes worked as a painter in Harlingen, where he also painted interior houses with figures in Hindeloopen. Then he left for Antwerp to be trained as a painter at the academy. Afterwards he stayed in his hometown Harlingen and in Leeuwarden. He also lived and worked for a long time in Brussels (1855-1866). Sebes mainly painted genre scenes and portraits, often with a Frisian character. He also made copies of old paintings on commission. In the period 1853-1901 he submitted work several times for the annual Exhibition of Living Masters.