Cecil van Haanen (3 November 1844 – 24 September 1914) was a
Vienna-born Dutch portrait and
genre painter, whose significant work was centred at
Venice.[1][2]
In 1866 he moved to Antwerp where he stayed for six years. Here he was taught by
Jozef Van Lerius, who introduced him to history and portrait painting, and genre painting which became the significant
oeuvre of his later painting in Venice. Although living largely in Venice from 1873, he spent time in London working as a magazine illustrator.[3][6]
Catalogue of valuable modern pictures and water-colour drawings, including nine pictures and drawings of
H. Herkomer […] seven works of C. van Haanen. W. Clowes and sons, London 1891
A catalogue of a loan collection of pictures by C. van Haanen, and other oil paintings, by artists of the British and foreign schools. Thomas McLean's Gallery, London 1896.
"Cecil van Haanen" in Allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon. Leben und Werk der berühmtesten bildenden Künstler, ed. Hermann Alexander Müller and Hans Wolfgang Singer, Literarische Verlagsanstalt Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt am Main 1921, p.112. Archive.org (in German)
Cecil van Haanen. Albertina, Wien. Zeichnungen, Ölskizzen, Gemälde. Ausstellung Frühjahr 1955. Foreword by Otto Benesch. Schroll, Vienna 1955
Van der Mullen, M; Challenging boundaries. The Haanen family as a case study regarding material and immaterial exchange in the field of visual arts between the Netherlands and the German speaking world (1815 - 1860), Uetrecht 2010