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Anton Abraham van Anrooy (11 January 1870 – 13 February 1949) was a Dutch painter and illustrator, naturalised as British.
Life Van Anrooy was born in Zaltbommel in the Netherlands,BritishMuseum.org: collection - Anton van Anrooy son of Peter Gysbert van Anrooy and his wife Josephine Maria Louisa.Home Office, Naturalisation certificates - Anton Abraham van Anrooy (via Ancestry.com at Wikipedia Library) He studied architecture at Delft Polytechnic (now the Delft University of Technology) until 1892 and then art in evening classes at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, where he was taught by Adolf le Comte, Frits Jansen and Paul Tetar van Elven,RKD.nl: RKDartists - Anton Abraham van Anrooy until 1896, when he moved to London, where he remained for the rest of his life. He was naturalised as a British citizen in 1915.
During World War I he was an official war artist for the Netherlands. He was later awarded the Order of Orange-Nassau.
He painted in oils, watercolours and pastels, producing mostly portraits, interiors and still lifes. He also designed posters, particularly for the railway companies LNER and GWR. One of his best known works is his 1928 poster showing the Amsterdam Marathon Tower advertising rail travel to the 1928 Olympics from Harwich.Science Museum Group collection - Anton van Anrooy, including the Harwich poster His work was part of the art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics, to which he submitted a portrait of Henri Deterding,Olympedia.org: Other 1928 art competition events: Paintings, open and the 1932 Summer Olympics.
In the last decade of his life he was much interested in photogrammetry and its advancement."Obituary of Anton van Anrooy" in The Photographic Journal, 1949, vol. 89, p. 67 (online version in Google books, snippet view)
He was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours (RI) in 1915. He also exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Walker Art Gallery, the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts and the Goupil Gallery.Art UK: Anton Abraham van Anrooy
He married Rach(a)el Stewart Sharp KeithFreeBMD.org.uk: Marriages Jun 1912 (1879–1973)FreeBMD.org.uk: Deaths 1973 in 1912 but had no children.
Selected works Victoria and Albert Museum:Collections, Victoria and Albert Museum A Canal at Amersfoort (watercolour, 1901) The Broads: 200 Miles of Safe Inland Waterways (LNER poster, c. 1923–1924) Delft via Harwich & Hook of Holland (LNER poster, c. 1924) Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam:Meisterdrucke.uk: Anton Abraham van Anrooy Portrait of Pangeran Ario Soejono, Minister without Portfolio in War Cabinet in London (oil on canvas, nd) Study of the Entire Composition for the (Unfinished) Painting of the Dutch Court in London, June 1942 (pencil drawing, 1942) UCL Art Museum:Art UK: Donald James MacKay, Lord Reay Donald James Mackay (1839–1921), KT, FBA, Lord Reay (oil on canvas, 1919) The British Academy:Art UK: Donald James MacKay, 11th Baron Reay Donald James Mackay (1839–1921), KT, FBA, 11th Baron Reay (oil on canvas, 1913) National Trust for Scotland (Pitmedden Garden):Art UK: Interior with Woman Reading Interior with Woman Reading (oil on canvas, c. 1930) National Library of Wales:Art UK: Interior of St David's Cathedral The Interior of St David's Cathedral (oil on board, 1921)
See also Peter van Anrooy
References
External links TravelPostersOnline.com: Royal Albert Bridge, Saltash, Cornwall
Further reading Pieter Arie Scheen, 1969: Lexicon Nederlandse beeldende kunstenaars, 1750-1950 (online version) Pieter Arie Scheen, 1981: Lexicon Nederlandse beeldende kunstenaars, 1750-1880, p. 11 (as: Anrooy, Anton Abraham van) A checklist of painters c1200-1976 represented in the Witt Library, Courtauld Institute of Art, London (first ed.) Christopher Wright, 1980: Paintings in Dutch museums: an index of oil paintings in public collections in The Netherlands by artists born before 1870, p. 9 (online version) Norbert Hostyn & Willem Rappard, 1995: Dictionaire van Belgische en Hollandse bloemenschilders geboren tussen 1750 en 1880 David Buckman, 2006: Artists in Britain Since 1945 (2 vols; 2nd ed.), Art Dictionaries Ltd (Sansom & Company),