4287 - Jacob Hofstra, Landscape with Horsemen

Jacob Hofstra, Landscape with Horsemen two men on horseback, beneath gnarled deciduous trees in an autumnal landscape; a painting executed with a fine, pointed brush in a slightly impasto style; oil on parquet-panelled wooden board, mid-19th century, signed lower left ‘J. Hofstra f. [fecit = made it]’, label on the reverse ‘Galerie Schöninger …’, signs of age, in a modern gilded stucco frame, inner dimensions approx. 43 x 37 cm. Artist information: Dutch landscape and genre painter (1805-1875, Sneek), worked as a painter’s assistant around 1835, likely self-taught, later worked as a policeman whilst continuing to paint, lived in Sneek, Source: Sneeker Nieuwsblad, Scheen and the internet.