14 letters found

1. 453 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Monday, 4 August 1884.

   in translation:

   I made this for someone in Eindhoven who wants to decorate a dining room. He wanted to do it with com...

   But he wants to paint those panels himself, and will that work? (However, I was to design and paint t...

   He’s a man I want to remain on good terms with if possible — a former goldsmith who has amassed a...

   But he specifically wants painting in the dining room, and has started painting 12 panels of flowers....

   in note 8:

   Hermans lived on Keizersgracht, district C, no. 384c (now no. 15), then called De Wal, in an imposing...

   in note 6:

   The retired Anthonius (Antoon) Petrus Hermans, formerly a goldsmith. See on this series of decoration...

2. 454 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, between mid-August and early September 1884.

   in translation:

   ... house in Eindhoven that belongs to a former goldsmith who is now rich, and has already amassed and ...

   in note 16:

   ...rom Theo (during his visit to Nuenen) or from Hermans (with whom he had a great deal of contact at t...

   in note 3:

   Antoon Hermans.

3. 455 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 23 August 1884.

   in note 3:

   ...he strain of going backwards and forwards to Mr Hermans in the heat and talking about that work may a...

4. 458 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Sunday, 21 September 1884.

   in translation:

   ... also designed the last of the 6 canvases for Hermans, Wood gatherers in the snow. So that all 6 of ...

5. 462 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, between about Wednesday, 24 and about Monday, 29 September 1884.

   in translation:

   ... canvases I already wrote to you about. This art lover is now busy copying them, and all 6 of them a...

   in note 2:

   Van Gogh wrote about these finished studies for Hermans in letters 454 and 459.

6. 463 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Tuesday, 30 September 1884.

   in translation:

   ...ave 12 photographs taken, a series of Brabant scenes, including the 6 that I’m making for Hermans.

7. 465 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Thursday, 9 October 1884.

   in translation:

   ...tographs of the weavers. Next week I hope to send you two subjects from the decorations for Hermans.

   ...ine that I earned anything from that work for Hermans — the first day I got two invoices for the s...

   Well, Hermans is very good and a man to keep in with, and he’s certainly rich — but — has alway...

   in note 8:

   Antoon Hermans was 62.

   in note 2:

   ...ese two photographs with letter 467. After ‘Hermans’ he crossed out the following unfinished sen...

8. 466 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Wednesday, 22 October 1884.

   in translation:

   ...es de visite to give you an idea of that decoration for Hermans — of which these are two canvases.

9. 467 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 25 October 1884.

   in note 1:

   ...ite of works that were part of the decoration for Hermans had already been enclosed with letter 466.

10. 469 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Friday, 14 November 1884.

    in translation:

    I now have 3 people in Eindhoven who want to learn to paint and whom I’m teaching to paint still li...

    in note 4:

    These ‘3 people’ were the goldsmith Antoon Hermans, the tanner Anton Kerssemakers and the telegra...

11. 470 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Monday, 17 November 1884.

    in translation:

    ... this can become something more feasible than Hermans, who nonetheless is really sustaining his ambi...

    ...w acquaintance in the form of tubes of paint. Hermans is preposterously miserly or rather beastly se...

    ...ctedly just to say a word to them. After all, Hermans has definitely promised me that he’ll pay fo...

    in note 5:

    That Hermans had his reservations emerges from a confidential letter from Mr van Gogh to Theo: ‘Vin...

12. 471 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Monday, 24 November 1884.

    in translation:

    Hermans has so many beautiful objects — like old jars and other antiques — that I wanted to ask y...

    The ones I’ve been making with Hermans so far are simpler. But just today he said to me that if I e...

    At all events I’ll ask Hermans for those objects — and make something for you with them — youâ€...

    in note 3:

    ...ice things’ (l. 45). A number of items from Hermans’s collection are listed in cat. Amsterdam 19...

13. 511 To Anton Kerssemakers. Nuenen, Friday, 3 July 1885.

    in note 2:

    ...rijstraat in Eindhoven and was a friend of Antoon Hermans (whom Van Gogh also knew). He stuffed anima...

14. 542 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 17 November 1885.

    in translation:

    ...drawing masters. I’ve tried it out on those friends of mine in Eindhoven, and I’d dare repeat it...

    in note 14:

    These friends were Antoon Hermans, Anton Kerssemakers and Willem van de Wakker: see letter 469.

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1. Chronology

   in 1884:

   Early August Retired goldsmith Antoon Hermans commissions a series of paintings from him (453).

   ... Gives lessons in still-life painting to Hermans, Anton Kerssemakers, a tanner, and Willem van ...