Evert Jan Boks, You’re Never Better Served Than By Yourself Playful he was equally adept at

he was equally adept at capturing enchanting interiors with spirited brushwork as we see here

Kierulf trained at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen with Otto Bache and Viggo Johansen

These paintings share a heightened appreciation of atmosphere

Medium: Oil on canvasOverall size: 17” x 20½” / 44cm x 52cmYear of creation: c

and his prospects were increasingly rosy

Evert Jan Boks, You’re Never Better Served Than By Yourself Playful he was equally adept atThis intimate late 19th century genre scene by Dutch Belgian painter Evert Jan Boks (1838 1914) depicts a maid seated comfortably within a well appointed domestic interior, caught in a private moment of indulgence. It belongs to a period when Boks was at the height of his popularity, exhibiting widely. Reclining in an upholstered armchair, the maid holds a glass of red wine in one hand and a decadent biscuit in the other, her posture relaxed, quietly