(b The Hague, 25 Aug 1837; d Karlsbad, 7 Aug 1899). By the age of 12 he was apprenticed to Johannes Stroebel (1821–1905), and from 1850 he attended classes at the Academie in The Hague. In 1854 he accompanied his teacher, Huib van Hove (1814–64), to Antwerp, where he attended evening classes at the Academie for two years and made contact with Louis Meijer, the marine painter. In 1855 he was joined in Antwerp by his brother (2) Matthijs Maris, with whom he shared a workshop and house. For a short period their friend and fellow student Laurens Alma-Tadema came to live with them. They lived on Matthijs’s grant and made small paintings, based on 17th-century Dutch genre pictures, for the American market.

Part of the Maris family

• Maris, Jacob(us Hendricus)
  • Maris
  • groups and movements
    • Hague, The, §II, 3: Art life and organization, 1800 and after
    • Hague school
    • Netherlands, the, §III, 6(ii): Painting and graphic arts, c 1850–c 1900
  • patrons and collectors
    • Boussod, Valadon & Cie
    • Scotland, §XIII: Collecting and dealing
  • pupils
    • Bock, Théophile de
    • Maris: (3) Willem Maris
    • Zwart, Willem de
  • reproductive prints by others
    • Zilcken, Philip
  • teachers
    • Meijer, Louis
  • works
    • Frame, §V, 5: The Netherlands and Belgium: 19th-century revival styles