Attributed to Johannes Pieter Visser-Bender (1785-1813): Academic study, a basket-maker and a wood-gatherer, pencil on paper

Ca. 25 x 22 cm (the wood-gatherer)

Ca. 22 x 21,5 cm (the basket-maker)

22 x 16cm (the academic study)

The 'Academic study' with the precise date of execution indicated, with the month above and the day below: 14 November 1811.

The Haarlem-born artist Joannes Pieter Visser Bender was a promiment member of the Haarlem drawing academy, or ‘Teekencollegie’. He had also been taught by Warnaar Horstink and Izaak Jansz. De Wit. His early death was unfortunate, as the young artist was already one of the academy’s most promising and gifted members.