# Hendrik Dirk Kruseman van Elten artist context and auction value notes

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## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1829-11-14
- Death date: 1904-07-12
- Nationality: Dutch
- Common media: oil painting, etching, lithography, drawing

## About Hendrik Dirk Kruseman van Elten

Hendrik Dirk Kruseman van Elten (1829–1904) was a Dutch painter, etcher, lithographer, and draftsman best known for landscape subjects. Born in Alkmaar on November 14, 1829, he trained and worked in the Netherlands before settling in Paris, where he died on July 12, 1904. His output centers on panoramic and atmospheric views of the Dutch countryside rendered in oil, alongside an accomplished body of etchings and lithographs. Kruseman van Elten frequently signed his work "H.D.K.v.E." Collectors encounter his landscapes through museum holdings in the Netherlands and through regular appearances at European and North American auctions. His career spans the mid-nineteenth century, a period of strong demand for naturalistic Dutch landscape traditions.

## Common works and media

Oil landscape paintings on canvas and panel, panoramic rural views, etchings of Dutch scenery, lithographic prints, and preparatory drawings. Subjects are predominantly Dutch countryside, waterways, and pastoral settings rendered in a naturalistic style typical of mid-nineteenth-century Dutch landscape painting.

## Market and appraisal context

Kruseman van Elten's auction profile includes oil paintings, etchings, lithographs, and works on paper. Paintings on canvas or panel of identifiable Dutch landscape subjects tend to attract stronger interest than prints or drawings. As with most nineteenth-century Dutch artists, appraisal value depends on medium, dimensions, condition, provenance, and the quality of the composition. Signed works using the characteristic "H.D.K.v.E." monogram aid attribution. Comparable public auction results should be consulted for current market benchmarks.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine researched artist identity data from library authority files and art-historical databases with auction records, sale dates, realized prices, medium, dimensions, and comparable lot information when those records are available. Identity data for this artist is grounded in the RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History, Getty ULAN, VIAF, and Wikidata.

## Sources

- RKD — Netherlands Institute for Art History: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/46670
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500015566
- VIAF (OCLC): https://viaf.org/viaf/95776456/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1605029
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrik_Dirk_Kruseman_van_Elten