Author: SLIJPER, Hendrik Johannes (artist).
Title: [A Eurasian hobby perched on a tree stump].[The Netherlands], 1986. Oil painting on board (ca. 29.5 x 19.5 cm). Signed “H.J. Slijper” and dated “1986” in white paint in the bottom right corner. In passepartout and framed (ca. 47.5 x 37 cm).
Description: Attractive painting by the Dutch artist Hendrik Johannes Slijper (1922-2007) depicting a falcon, known as the Eurasian hobby, sitting on a tree stump in a countryside with meadows. This Eurasian hobby is a bird of prey in the genus “Falco” of the subfamily “Falconinae”. In 1758, Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) gave it its binomial name "Falco subbuteo” in his famous work Systema naturae. It is a very bold and courageous bird, and therefore used in falconry, trained to hawk birds like drongos, hoopoes, larks and quails.Henk Slijper was a pupil of the Dutch artist Adrianus Miolée (1879-1961) in Haarlem and studied in Amsterdam with the Dutch artist Piet van Wijngaerdt (1873-1964). He was active as a teacher at the “Gooise Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten” in Laren and is best known as the illustrator of the authoritative work Roofvogels en uilen van Europa (Birds of prey and owls of Europe) written by the Dutch ornithologist Karel Hendrik Voous (1920-2002), first published in 1986 (Leiden, E.J. Brill and W. Backhuys).With a small scratch in lower left margin. Otherwise in good condition.l Cf. for the artist: Scheen II, p. 355.

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