CLIFFORD HALL | Whispers of Summer
Oil on Board
15 x 20 cms / 6 x 7¾ inches
Clifford Hall’s Whispers of Summer captures the quiet rhythm of rural life with expressive, gestural brushwork. Golden sheaves of wheat rise against a backdrop of dense woodland, their forms softly animated by light and breeze. Hall’s painterly style conveys immediacy and atmosphere, blending tonal harmony with textural richness. A lyrical study of the British countryside, this work hints at the fleeting warmth and stillness of late summer.
Willem Johannes Martens was a distinguished nineteenth century Dutch genre painter celebrated for his exquisitely detailed interior scenes and still life paintings. Born in Amsterdam in 1839, he trained under the esteemed artist Nicolaas Pieneman and established a career defined by technical finesse, compositional balance and an enduring sense of quiet refinement.
Martens pursued his early education in Amsterdam before travelling to Rome, where he painted from 1874 and throughout the subsequent decade. Around 1889 he relocated to The Hague and by 1892 he had settled in Berlin, where he lived and worked until his death in February 1895. His paintings were exhibited widely in Amsterdam, The Hague, Arnhem, Rotterdam, Munich and Leeuwarden.
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