"Johannes Bosboom, by Gerarda Hermina Marius - in free pdf; publish, M. Nijhoff, 1917, 's-Gravenhage / The Hague"

“The romantic movement under the leadership of the geniuses Nuyen also attracted me to follow. And in spite of the fact that in this way people lost their color and embellishment and often degenerating into chic, later on, a more sensible search arose for enlivening of coloration, heightening effect and strengthening the relief.”

“To show this later progress in my own work I refer to my 'Organ-playing monk', in 1850, my 'Lord's Supper in the Geestes-kerk in Utrecht' in 1852, and my 'Bakenesse-kerk in Haarlem', painted a dozen years later. All three can be found in the museum Fodor and can thus be compared to each other. The preference will undoubtedly be given to the latter, which for its strength and unity is counted among the masterpieces of this collection.”

“As a schoolboy drawing-lessons became my favorite, and that pleasure was not ignited a little when, by the time of my twelfth year, the cityscape-painter B. J. van Hove became our neighbor. Since then I began to long for the moment that I would be allowed to change the school bench for a place in his studio. That desire was already satisfied in the autumn of 31.”

“..how with the Romantic movement after 1830 also the love awakened for everything that recalled former times to the mind - including the period of the middle-ages -, and how the sigh grew from it to collect all kind of objects that reassured the taste of those times. Here too, the celebrated Nuyen stood in front.”

“..truly, if I sometimes of my work under the eyes, I love a genre , which in the fullest sense of saying may be called 'mine'.”

“The same year I made my debut at the Exposition in Rotterdam with "the St. Janskerk in ’s Hertogenbosch, the interior", which immediately found a merchant.. .The approval by this, the renewed appreciation I got in Felix 38, now concerning a 'church with incident sunlight', together with my personal characteristic tendency to reproduce the impressions which church buildings gave me, led me gradually to choose and prefer this genre , Belgium in '37 and repeatedly to return there, attracted by the abundance of study , that this country offered me..”