Johannes Frederik Hulk, Jr. (Dutch, 1855-1913), Mother Hen and Ducklings

Oil on canvas, signed at lower right, with gallery stamps to verso, period gilt frame.

Stretcher size 16 x 24 in.; Frame dimensions 34 1/2 x 27 1/4 in.

Johannes 'John' Frederik Hulk, Jr. was a Dutch painter and watercolorist, and the son of artist Johannes Frederik Hulk Sr. He studied with his father before training at the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam under August Allebé and at the Académie Julian in Paris. Hulk spent approximately twelve years in England, where he became known for paintings of fox hunts, sporting scenes, and dogs commissioned by landowners. He later served on the board of Arti et Amicitiae, as a curator of the Teylers Museum in Haarlem, and as a member of the Royal Subsidy Committee.

Minor buckling to canvas; some surface grime to canvas and frame; minor loss to frame.

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