Bernard de Hoog

Dutch (1867-1943)

Bernard de Hoog was born in 1867 in Amsterdam and studied under Johannes Frederik Hulk and Johannes Cornelis van Essen at the Kunstnijverheidsschool Quellinus in Amsterdam. As an artist, de Hoog was influenced by The Hague School, which was primarily a movement of realism, a reaction against the previous mood of romanticism. His paintings often depicted interior scenes, a happy and innocent atmosphere where children play a major part. On the continent his pictures attracted much attention, and he was well received in the Netherlands, as well as in England, the United States and Canada.

De Hoog exhibited at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and is represented in numerous museums across Europe and North America including the National Gallery, Victoria, Auckland Art Gallery, Glasgow Museums, McLean Museum and Art Gallery, Blackburn Museum and Queen’s University, Belfast.