Willem Bastiaan Tholen

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Self-portrait in a forest landscape

Willem Bastiaan Tholen (born February 13, 1860 in Amsterdam , † December 5, 1931 in The Hague ) was a Dutch portrait and marine painter .

Tholen was born as the son of the painter and later art dealer Pieter Hendrik Hermanus Tholen and Johanna Maria Arendsen. He grew up in Kampen from 1864 to 1876 in an artistic environment. Tholen studied from 1876 to 1877 at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam with August Allebé and from 1877 to 1888 at the Polytechnische School te Delft (Polytechnic School in Delft) with Adolf le Comte . He met Paul Joseph Constantin Gabriel in 1879 , both of whom spent the summer of 1880 in Kampen.

After training as a drawing teacher, Tholen first settled in Gouda in 1879 and then in Kampen in 1880. He then lived and worked in various places in the Netherlands. In 1883 he visited Rome , Naples and Capri at the invitation of Gerret Pieter Rouffaer . From 1885 he devoted himself exclusively to painting. In 1903 he was awarded a gold medal by Queen Wilhelmina .

Tholen married Jacoba Suzanna Muller in 1886, who died in 1918. He remarried Lita de Ranitz in 1919. He lived and worked in The Hague in the so-called Kanaalvilla. He was a member of the artists' association " Pulchri Studio " in The Hague. He died at the age of 71 in The Hague and was buried in his father's grave in the New Cemetery on Soerenseweg in Apeldoorn.

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SURNAME Tholen, Willem Bastiaan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch portrait and marine painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH December 5, 1931
Place of death The hague