Elias Pieter van Bommel
Romantic, detailed cityscapes with historical value
Elias Pieter van Bommel was a Dutch painter. He was best known for his romantic cityscapes. Van Bommel studied at the Rijksacademie Amsterdam and with the landscape painter Andries Roth. He worked in the style of Romanticism. Under the influence of Roth, he initially painted mainly landscapes himself. He also made river and beach views. In the 1850s, however, he switched to finely elaborated city views, usually with a lot of bustle and liveliness, with a great sense of monumentality. Several of his works also have historical value, in particular due to the detailed way in which he depicted historic buildings and buildings. Van Bommel painted throughout the Netherlands, including in Amsterdam, where he lived, Rotterdam, Dordrecht, Scheveningen, Vlissingen and Hoorn. He also made extensive study trips through Belgium, Germany, France, Hungary and Italy. He died in 1890 in Vienna, where he had settled at the end of his life, aged 69. Van Bommel was the teacher of Jan David Geerling Grootveld.
Relationship Network
Master student
- Aert Schouman Master
- Paulus van Liender Master
Fellow student
Influenced
Artworks by this artist (24 total)
- Blick auf Buda
- View of a Dutch Market 1874
- The Singel and Brouwersgracht, Amsterdam 1874
- View from the Nieuwengracht in Amsterdam 1882
- Die Augustinerkirche in Perchtoldsdorf bei Wien 1885
- Scene in Amsterdam
- Dutch Sawmill, Water Mill and Flour Mill, near Amsterdam
- Holländische Marktansicht
- A Winter View of the City of Dordrecht 1877
- Dordrecht 1871
- Ansicht von Dordrecht mit der Grote Kerk 1871
- Die Klausen in Mödling 1888
- Moonlit Night in Winter Outside Amsterdam
- A view of Amsterdam in the moonlight
- Flood at the City Gate 1841
- Canal Landscape in Winter
- Sailboats in the harbour
- Watermill Near Amsterdam
- Winter Pleasures on the Ice outside a Dutch Town
- A view of Amsterdam 1881