Abraham Hulk

ABRAHAM HULK (London, 1813 - Holland, 1897).
"Ships at Sea."
Oil on canvas.
Presents small Puncture on the canvas and patches on the back.
Signed in the lower left corner.
Measurements: 31 x 46 cm; 54 x 69 cm (frame).
Abraham Hulk was an Anglo-Dutch painter, draughtsman and lithographer. Initially trained as a portrait painter, he became a well-known marine painter and the patriarch of a whole family of Anglo-Dutch artists. Hulk was born in London, the son of merchant Hendrik Hulk and Mary Burroughs, and trained as a portrait painter with Jean Augustin Daiwaille (1786-1850) before continuing his artistic education at the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam.
During 1833 and 1834 he traveled to America, visiting New York and Boston, exhibiting in the latter city. In 1834 he returned to Amsterdam, where he lived until 1855, when he moved several times until 1870, when he settled in England, where he spent the rest of his life. He achieved great recognition due to his ability to paint the sea and its ships in a personal way. His work was exhibited at the Royal Academy in London from 1876 to 1890 where he entered three paintings of which two were Dutch seascapes. He also exhibited at the Suffolk Street Galleries in London and in Leeuwarden and The Hague in the Netherlands from 1843 to 1868. He formed a whole saga of painters belonging to his family among whom are his younger brother Johannes Frederik Hulk Senior (1829-1911), his sons Hendrik Hulk (1842-1937), Abraham Hulk Junior (1843-1919) and Willem Frederik Hulk (b. 1852) and his nephew Johannes Frederik Hulk (1855-1913).