Netherlands Group of a famous Dutch painter

[saxcob]

Group of

Arnold Marc Gorter (1866-1933), Painter of the East-Netherlands Landscape

http://dolphy.home.xs4all.nl/AMG/EnglishContents.html

“The Queen of the Netherlands, Wilhelmina, took up painting round 1919 and wanted to invite a real landscapist as a tutor or as companion painter. Knowing Gorter from her yearly visits to the Arti-exhibitions and having bought one of his paintings already in 1913, she thought of him. In 1921 Gorter was invited to her countryside palace at Apeldoorn to paint the autumn colours together. The next year an invitation followed to accompany Wilhelmina and members of the court on a two-month cruise along Norway's coast, to go painting there.”

His distinctions:

Bavaria, Order of St. Michael

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_St._Michael_(Bavaria)

IV. class (2 March 1910)

IV. class with crown (11 April 1914)

Netherlands, Order of Orange-Nassau

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Orange-Nassau

Officer (24 August 1928)

Italy, Order of the Crown of Italy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Crown_of_Italy

Officer (5 November 1912)

Belgium, Order of the Crown

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Crown_(Belgium)

Knight (18 November 1912)

The group contains all certificates.

[paul wood]

What a wonderful group, so nice to have all the relevant documentation, well done in getting it.

Paul