Coen van Oven

According to the RKD he was born in Dordrecht and in 1903 he became a member of the drawing academy in Antwerp.^[1] The following year he was a member of the drawing academy in Brussels.^[1] In the winters he took lessons from the painter Jan Veth in Bussum.^[1] In 1905 he was a pupil of Roland Larij, the chairman of the drawing academy in Dordrecht (Pictura) and in 1906 he became a pupil of the German architect Adolph Meyer in Berlin for two years.^[1] van Oven's work was included in the 1939 exhibition and sale Onze Kunst van Heden (Our Art of Today) at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.^[2]

He is known for his characteristic portraits of family members and landscapes. In 1913 he moved to Amsterdam, where he stayed except for a short period in South Africa after the war where he visited Kimberley and Pretoria during the years 1947-1949.^[1] He was a member of Arti et Amicitiae and the group called De Onafhankelijken.^[1]

• Exhibition catalog Coen van Oven, schilder 1883-1963, by Mariek Eggenkamp-Rotteveel Mansveld (editor), Amsterdam, 1998

• Coen van Oven website
• Coen van Oven on artnet