5. Hendrik Dirk Kruseman van Elten
(1829-1904)

The Deserted Mill

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van Elten: The Deserted Mill

The Deserted Mill

Etching, 1883, 240 x 315 mm. Fine impression in black brown with plate tone on thick, textured wove paper with full margins, from the portfolio Original Etchings by American Artists, published by Cassell & Co., Ltd. Kruseman was born in Alkmaar in the Netherlands, studied in Haarlem and began a successful career as a painter which continued when he immigrated to the United States at the age of thirty-six. He was active in New York City, where he was a member of the New York Etching Club and an associate of the National Academy of Design. This work derives from his American years, but there was little change in his conservative mode when he began his work here and he fit right in to the Barbizon-influenced American etching style of the 1880s.