[Trees and river. Background with a valley and village with towers].

Drawing, grey ink wash drawing and thin brown ink pencil, 38 x 24,5 cm, laid paper, handwritten modern attribution to Van Liender on reverse.

Stuck on cardboard (cardboard scratched, label removed on reverse).

Paulus van Liender (Utrecht 1731-1797 Haarlem), was a landscape painter and draughtsman from the Northern Netherlands. According to the Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD), he was a pupil of Cornelis Pronk, the nephew of Jacob van Liender and the brother of Pieter van Liender. Paulus was a board member of the Haarlem Tekenacademie set up in the home of Pieter Teyler van der Hulst, and in 1774 he became "steller van het model", which meant he was allowed to direct the live model to assume various positions during drawing sessions of the academy. He worked with the landscape painter Jan de Beijer. His pupils were Franciscus Andreas Milatz, Hermanus Petrus Schouten, and Jacob Elias van Varelen. Prov. "École professionnelle de Bruxelles, pensionnat pour jeunes filles" (stamp on upper left side).