# Wouterus Verschuur artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-05-16T21:18:06.133Z
Quality: high confidence, strong sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1812-06-11
- Death date: 1874-07-04
- Nationality: Dutch
- Movements: Romanticism
- Common media: oil painting, watercolor, lithography, drawing

## About Wouterus Verschuur

Wouterus Verschuur (1812–1874) was a Dutch painter, watercolorist, lithographer, and draftsman active in Amsterdam and later in Vorden, Gelderland. He is recognized as one of the later representatives of Romanticism in Dutch art, specializing in animal subjects — particularly horses — set within carefully observed landscapes and stable interiors. Verschuur trained and worked in Amsterdam, where the tradition of animalier painting had deep roots in Dutch Golden Age art, and he brought that lineage into a nineteenth-century Romantic sensibility. His paintings are held in major public collections and documented by the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD). Collectors encounter his work at auction primarily as oil-on-panel or oil-on-canvas horse portraits and pastoral landscape scenes.

## Common works and media

Oil paintings on panel and canvas depicting horses in stables, pastures, and rural landscapes are Verschuur's most characteristic output. He also produced watercolors, drawings, and lithographs of animal and pastoral subjects. Works are often signed with variants of his name, including 'W. Verschuur.' Horse portraits — including specific breeds such as Belgian draft horses — landscape compositions with cattle or figures, and coaching or equestrian scenes represent common subject categories that appear in appraisal and auction contexts.

## Market and appraisal context

Verschuur's oil paintings of horses in stable interiors and pastoral landscapes are the works most frequently encountered at auction. Condition, provenance, size, and the quality of animal rendering all affect collector interest. Works with solid RKD documentation or clear exhibition history tend to carry stronger attribution confidence. His son, Wouter Verschuur (jr.), was also an active painter, so careful distinction of authorship is important when evaluating unsigned or lightly documented works.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/80645
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2341947
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500016521
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/40154711/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wouterus_Verschuur