Marcel Praet / Albert Jurardus van Prooyen / Fanny Psicha

Marcel Praet

This watercolour shows the exquisite workmanship

of this contemporary belgium artist.

Marcel Praet is at this moment professor at

an Art Academie near Antwerp (Belgium)
Work on paper. Dimensions: 30 / 40 cm.

Quite different but again a genuine work by this humble artist!

Colour etching on paper. Dimensions: 22 / 30 cm.

Albert Jurardus van Prooyen

A small oilpainting of this very talented dutch painter.

At the age of 13 he allready followed lessons at

the royal academy in Amsterdam.

Though his works are shown in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam

he never made it to be one of the greater painters of his time.
This was the first painting that started our crazyness in
collecting art. We bought it at a local auction held for
charity reasons in our hometown.

Oil on panel. Dimensions: 20 - 28 cm

The painting presented here above was the start for me to collect

more paintings. That is the reason I keep on looking for this particular

artist. As it was not unusual to do more paintings on the same spot

this painting also has its' "sister". And although van Prooijen

has been often copied, the elements and way of treatment

convinced me together with the "Sothebys" sticker present on 

this work. Oil on panel. Dimensions: 31 / 41 cm.

The signature on this work is typical van Prooijen. It is present

as well on the first work but at the time we bought that hardly

identifiable. The addition at the and of the name stands 

for "fecit' to our opinion. (ft)

Presented here is another painting taken from the same spot.

It is obvious that van Prooijen used his own imagination and

added people and a windmill, probably for commercial reasons.

This painting has been auctioned at Sothebys as well.

Fanny Psicha

A watercolor by this artist.

The women painters of the 19th century were in

fact sentenced to work inside their homes what

resulted in still lives and interiors and this is exactly

what Fanny Psicha did. Fanny Psicha made some 

interesting oil paintings.  In fact her real name was Maria 

Adeline AliceSchweistal. Her works were found in

the royal Dutch collection. Work on canvas

Oil on canvas: Dimensions: 30 / 47 cm.

The signature on her oil paintings and watercolors is fairly 

straight forward. When she writes with a pen or pencil

her writing is much more gracefully as  the picture here

beyond attests. It confirms her address in Amsterdam.