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"..drivers, docker and skippers.. ..at the canal the whole day they are loading peat and every horse stands still for half an hour [his time for sketching]. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)"
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Jan MankesNever ever a young painter has got greater and more unselfish support — Jan Mankes
"Never ever a young painter has got greater and more unselfish support for his work.. ..the owl, in so many [of his] paintings on the top of the folding-screen, the little kestrel, the white mice, the pike! It was Pauwels, always Pauwels [Jan Mankes maceneas, living in The Hague] who took care of that, who first sent them to Friesland, and later to Eerbeek [where Jan Mankes lived his last years].. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)"
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Jan Mankes was a Dutch painter. He produced around 200 paintings, 100 drawings and 50 prints before dying of tuberculosis at the age of 30. His restrained, detailed work ranged from self-portraits to landscapes and studies of birds and animals. His work is now exhibited in his native Netherlands in the Museum Arnhem, Museum Belvédère and Museum MORE.
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"Yet I would like to get acquainted with Japanese drawings or paintings.. ..especially as they appreciate birds so strongly and therefore already they are my friends. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)"
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"..[that] the landscape will become directly or indirectly an object of study for me.. (a month later:) ..So I have planned the project – already my intention for some years, as you know - I (almost) finished the painting of Woudsterweg.. .There you have it already.. .a landscape, Amice. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)"
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"It [an owl] is like coming from a fairy-tale, something royal fragile, something that you would never want to touch, Yes to me it has become fully absolute because of that silver breast. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)"
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"I have finished a fairly large painting, the goat; I sometimes spoke to you about my plan. I believe it has become a real painting, and very complete. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)"
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"I dont know of any other painter in The Netherlands for whom painting has remained so extremely just means, without ever becoming a goal. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)"
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