Johannes Bosboom

"In the 'Kunst-Kronijk' my work 'Monastic corridor' came under your eyes; it is after a drawing that I started at Kleve after Nature and of which the painting is now almost finished. I believe, you kno…"

"images of his art, in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam"

"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 apprecia…"

"..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'."

"..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 c…"

"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…"

"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 y…"

"..that my drawings which offer - also by variety of genre - a greater variety , especially after 1863, when my late friend jr. CCA Ridder van Rappard urged me to reserve especially for him all the new…"