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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 5876737, member: 2844&quot;]The surname van der Meer is not uncommon. The name has the same origin as the name Vermeer. Only the name though.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Eduard van der Meer painted in The Hague in the west, and Groningen in the north. Both cities are in coastal provinces, which you see in the painting you posted, with one of those iconic water scenes. </p><p><br /></p><p>OP&#039;s A. van der Meer painted scenes from the poorer, more arid heathland and fen regions in the east and southeast. Many paintings seem to feature typical heathland &#039;schaapskooien&#039;, sheep stables, with low, curved roofs. </p><p>On some of the paintings I see the type of church tower from my region in the southeast. You see similar church towers on Brueghel paintings btw. Jan Brueghel the elder originally came from Breugel, about 15 mins drive from me (just past van Gogh&#039;s Nuenen). </p><p><br /></p><p>A. van der Meer&#039;s style is also later than that of Eduard van der Meer, and less accomplished, although I wouldn&#039;t call him an amateur. I saw many similar paintings in similar frames in interior decorating shops here in the 70s and 80s. Pleasing, attractive paintings, hand painted by someone who knew the subject well and painted variations on that subject.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is highly unlikely A. van der Meer would have been starving or even struggling. The Netherlands already had a good social security system at the time. Although it wasn&#039;t perfect, no one starved. </p><p>Artists could apply for special artist&#039;s financial support, but not every artist did that. A. van der Meer probably didn&#039;t need to. He was what we call a &#039;broodschilder&#039;, a &#039;bread painter&#039;, churning out similar paintings on commission. Sometimes painters became broodschilder to support their &#039;real&#039; art. </p><p>If he sold most of his work to the US, he would probably have had a satisfactory arrangement with Merrill Chase.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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