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Lively Amsterdam street scene with figures, horses and tram, signed 'Ch Verschuuren Jr.' (lower right), oil on canvas, unframed, 57x76 cm, Provenance:-Artist's collection, thence by descent to the present owner, Painted around 1920.Charles Verschuuren (Tilburg, June 16, 1891 – New York, October 8, 1955) was a Dutch painter and illustrator. In 1915, he married revue dancer Antonia Kemming in Amsterdam. He studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in Amsterdam and spent 1913-1914 in Paris. Afterwards, he worked for several years at the Kotting printing press in Amsterdam, where he created more than a hundred posters in seven years, including both advertising and theater posters.In 1922, Charles moved with his family to Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States, and in 1923 to New York, where he joined the staff of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle newspaper. He designed covers for the Sunday magazine, the first of which dates back to June 29, 1924. After the Depression years, he also painted murals for various restaurants and nightclubs in New York. His freelance career came to an end with the outbreak of World War II, when Verschuuren enlisted as an illustrator in the U.S. Army. After the war, he briefly worked at Walt Disney Studios, contributing to the animated film Seeds of Destiny, which won an Oscar in 1946, but he eventually returned to his previous work.In addition to his illustration work - several of his posters are preserved in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and the Theater Instituut Nederland - Charles Verschuuren left behind a small body of oil paintings, including the lively Amsterdam cityscape currently being auctioned.