Beautifully detailed painting Louis Soonius, the farrier

Beautifully detailed painting by Louis Soonius, the farrier.

Placed in a classic frame of 1.15 m wide x 74 cm high.
Painting itself measures approximately 98 cm wide x 58 cm high.
The cloth is slightly crackled but otherwise looks great.
Due to the chosen theme and color scheme, this canvas can be attributed to the mid-30s.

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Lodewijk (Louis) Soonius (1883-1956) is a draftsman and painter from The Hague who is best known for his beach scenes with playing children and donkeys.
In 1883, Lodewijk Soonius and his twin sister Margaretha were born. Soonius grew up in a Roman Catholic family in The Hague.
His father, Wilhelmus Johannes Soonius, was a vegetable grower and his mother, Maria Amerentia Hartwig, cared for the children full-time.
His first drawings date from 1900, when he was not yet 17 years old.
In it he captures the changing cityscape of The Hague. In the same year he started as a painter at the Rozenburg Plateelbakkerij, the hourbooks testify to his drawing passion full of sketches of sets and interesting figures.
At Rozenburg Soonius met Chris Beekman with whom he became friends and around 1905 he started his lessons at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague where he worked with the Frisian Ids Wiersma.
In 1913 Soonius won the Royal Subsidy for Painting, the current Royal Prize for Painting.
This subsidy allowed Soonius to fully focus on painting, which is evident, among other things, from his dismissal from Rozenburg. Together with Chris Beekman and Aris Knikker, Soonius rented a studio in the Noorderbeekdwarsstraat.
After the First World War, Soonius joined the Hague Sketch Club, where he often exhibited nudes. There he gained more fame, which brought him into contact with various art dealers who brought his work to attention, such as Kunsthandel Kreijns & Zoon's at Delftschevaart 40.
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In the late 1920s Soonius had financial difficulties and to earn extra income he illustrated novels for the Catholic publisher JN Voorhoeve.
The 1930s, on the other hand, were fruitful, Soonius had several exhibitions, including at Kunsthandel Sena and Huize Koninginnegracht 77.
His childhood drawings of The Hague were purchased in 1933 by the Monument Care Association and in 1939 Soonius painted the portrait of Queen Wilhelmina for the Batavian Petroleum Company, which was widely reported in all national and regional newspapers.
Just before the outbreak of the Second World War, Soonius' work was on display at the exhibition Our Art of the Present in the Rijksmuseum.
In the 1950s Soonius would continue painting steadily until he died in 1956.