Abraham Hulk Senior
Abraham Hulk Senior (London, 1 May 1813 - Zevenaar, 23 March 1897) was an Anglo Dutch painter, drawer and lithograph.
Family
There exists a fine art family of Hulk painters as not only was Abraham Hulk Senior also referred to as Abraham Hulk the Elder, a painter, but so was his brother, Johannes Frederik Hulk Senior (1829–1911) and his sons Willem Frederik Hulk (1852–c. 1880), Johannes Frederik Hulk Junior (1855–1913) and Abraham Hulk Junior (1876–1898) too. The son of his brother, Johannes Frederik Hulk (1829–1911), who was also called Johannes Frederik Hulk (1855–1913) was also a painter. Abraham Hulk Senior was born in London as the son of the merchant Hendrik Hulk and Mary Burroughs. He was the teacher not only to his brother Johannes Frederik but to most of his family members and also to the painter Adrianus David Hilleveld. Abraham Senior married Maria Wilhelmina van der Meulen. There is a similarity between this Hulk family of painters and the Dommersen family of Dutch painters like Pieter Cornelis Dommersen and his son William Raymond Dommersen who also settled in England from the Netherlands and were also all marine painters.
Biography
Abraham Hulk Senior became one of the well known marine painters of his time in the 19th century and with that the patriarch of a whole family of Anglo Dutch painters. He studied first to paint portraits under the portrait painter, Jean Augustin Daiwaille (1786–1850) and after that at the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam.
From 1833 to 1834 he traveled in America to New York and Boston where he exhibited in Boston. In 1834 he returned to the Netherlands where he first lived in Amsterdam and from 1834 to 1896 in The Hague and Leeuwarden. In the meantime from 1855 to 1856 first in Enkhuizen and afterwards in Oosterbeek and Haarlem, but returned for good in 1870 to England, where he lived till his death in 1897. Although most literature states that he died in London, he actually died on a short visit in Zevenaar in the Netherlands.[1] He became well known because he seemed to have the ability to paint the sea and its ships in such a different way for which he became one of the great marine painters. Some of his portraits have survived. His work was exhibited in the Royal Academy in London from 1876 to 1890 where he entered three paintings of which two were Dutch seascapes. He also exhibited at the Suffolk Street Galleries in London and in Leeuwarden and The Hague in the Netherlands from 1843 to 1868.
Museums
His works hang in the Amsterdam, Dordrecht, Haarlem and Enschede museums.
References
- Pieter A. Scheen, Lexicon Nederlandse Beeldende Kunstenaars
- P.T.A.Swillens, Prisma Schilderslexicon
- Christopher Wood, The Dictionary of Victorian Painters
- Boomstra, Ankie De schilders Hulk. Een kunstenaarsfamilie in de 19e eeuw, Utrecht, 1994
- Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie: Hulk, Abraham
- Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon: Hulk, Abraham (1813)
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