WILEM JOHANNES MARTENS | The Silk Ribbon
Oil on Panel
40 x 32.5 cms / 15¾ x 12¾ inches
Willem Johannes Martens’ The Silk Ribbon is a captures a quiet domestic moment with precision and grace. Two young women, absorbed in conversation and sewing, are painted with delicate brushwork with particular attention paid to fabric, texture and interior detail. Martens’ composition reflects the influence of Dutch 19th-century realism, blending narrative intimacy with academic finish in a scene of everyday elegance.
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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