Oscar von Willemoes-Suhm Watercolor Cagayan Philippines
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Product details
| Product number: | 1215 |
| Style: | Founding era, Historicism, Realism |
| Material: | Watercolor on paper |
| Dimensions: | 21 x 29 cm |
Product description
Sensationally rare original watercolor painting by the tobacco dealer Oscar von Willemoes-Suhm from 1886 from the time of the flourishing tobacco trade in the Cagayan Valley on the island of Luzon in the Philippines. (born 1850 in Glückstadt, died 1934 in Schleswig-Holstein) was a German merchant, founder and partner of the trading house Baer & Suhm.
He came from the German-Danish noble family of Willemoes-Suhm. His parents were the later district administrator Peter Friedrich von Willemoes-Suhm (1816–1891) and Mathilde Ida Albertine von Qualen. The well-known zoologist Rudolf von Willemoes-Suhm (1847–1875) was his brother.
From 1873 he worked as an employee for Baer Senior & Company. In 1879, together with G. A. Baer, he founded the successful trading company Baer & Suhm in Manila (Philippines). He also worked as a steward at the renowned Manila Jockey Club.
The museum work is fully inscribed on the verso and documents the beginnings of the tobacco industry. You can see him with a rifle, shooting at a crocodile, as well as his authorized representative O. Dürr and his Great Dane Juno (sitting).
He writes himself: It was a transport of 200 bamboo rafts, all manned by 2 Igorottes (mountain tribes), magnificent fellows, wild, brave, loyal. In the background the Dominican monastery fortress of the village of Iluru.
Small tears, missing part on the left, otherwise in good condition.
He came from the German-Danish noble family of Willemoes-Suhm. His parents were the later district administrator Peter Friedrich von Willemoes-Suhm (1816–1891) and Mathilde Ida Albertine von Qualen. The well-known zoologist Rudolf von Willemoes-Suhm (1847–1875) was his brother.
From 1873 he worked as an employee for Baer Senior & Company. In 1879, together with G. A. Baer, he founded the successful trading company Baer & Suhm in Manila (Philippines). He also worked as a steward at the renowned Manila Jockey Club.
The museum work is fully inscribed on the verso and documents the beginnings of the tobacco industry. You can see him with a rifle, shooting at a crocodile, as well as his authorized representative O. Dürr and his Great Dane Juno (sitting).
He writes himself: It was a transport of 200 bamboo rafts, all manned by 2 Igorottes (mountain tribes), magnificent fellows, wild, brave, loyal. In the background the Dominican monastery fortress of the village of Iluru.
Small tears, missing part on the left, otherwise in good condition.