Otto Eerelman Sleigh in the snow

About Otto Eerelman

Otto Eerelman (1839-1926) is generally considered one of the best Dutch animal painters of the nineteenth century. Born in Groningen to a family of six children, at the age of fifteen the young Otto Eerelman enrols in the Groningen Drawing Academy and quickly develops into a promising artist. Initially, Otto Eerelman is commissioned primarily for historical paintings and portraits, but later he gravitates towards painting dogs, horses, still l ...