Who is the painter?

Wonderful Radboud, thank you for sharing such a personal story and the photos. He was talented, I like those pastel drawings.
I am sure @Robert1983 would like to see this as well, he has been tagged, I hope he shows up.

I am glad we can offer you a modest platform here to set things straight. Let's hope enough people will see it, so the true story will be told.
Now go and tell your sister that your grandfather's story is now out there on an international site.

I spotted the photo of Titus Brandsma, I still have his prayer card in my oma's prayer book.

 

small world !!
I never considered this site a place to set the record straight , debunking false assertions about the origins of some art works..... but there ya have it !!

 

Thank you, It makes me very happy that you people like and understand my story.
Realy nice to see that 40 Years afther my grandfathers deadth his work stil live's on.

That's why i went yesterday to my mother and went in to the addic and got the ultimed proof that "Hendrik Theodorus Jaspers" is "Jeanne Brandsma" and these are her children

 

Soooo, Jeanne had children of all ages, including some very grown up ones. And even the child actor who played 'Ciske de Rat' (1955 Dutch movie).



What did your mother say when you told her about this site? Did you show her?
Goedemiddag, moeder van Radboud, uw vader had talent.

 

Hi nice people,
What a very interesting discussion did you have !

I inherited a painting of (so far I have discovered) Jeanne Brandsma. My opa bought it in Niijmegen, that's written behind.


The strange thing, is that I found this reference on Catawiki of an exact reproduction.
Click on « Objekt anzeigen »
https://www.catawiki.de/l/28257651-jeanne-brandsma-1902-1992-portret-petrus


Do you know if Mrs Brandsma painted several copies ?

Thanks a lot for your answer...

Marianne

 

Welcome, Marianne. @radboud stam wrote that his grandfather Henk Jaspers (the painter of the Jeanne Brandsma children's paintings) painted from pictures. I hope he sees this and can tell us your 'Petrus' is also by his grandfather.
If so, since there are various versions of the girl paintings, there could also be various versions of the 'Petrus' paintings. Henk Jaspers painted from photos, so there is probably an original of the 'Petrus' painting by another painter.

 

Hi AJ,
Thank you for your answer.
Yes I saw that part of the discussion, but missed that there are severeal versions of the girl paintings.
Yes indeed I hope Radboud will visit this subject again ;o)

O.

 

I have inherited two paintings signed by V.Dias from my father. He purchased these in the late '60's or early '70's. I was hoping the folks in this thread could help provide a little information on who may have actually been the artist? Both are original oils on canvas

 

@Any Jewelry

 

Thanks for the tag, but I don't know more than is mentioned in this thread.

 

According to this thread, his real name was Henk Jaspers (post 18), and he used a lot of pseudonyms, including V. Dias (post 5).

I think this is an instance where knowing the real name is nice, but isn't going to make a difference in value. Values will be comparable, so see what's out there under the various names included in post 5.

 

Oh, right. I forgot most of this thread, thanks for reminding me. I'll change my previous post.

In that case all of the information that we are able to give is in this thread already.
@steven nelsen , if you want more information about Henk Jaspers, you could start a private conversation with @radboud stam .

 

I share here the picture of a painting that my father bought somewhere in 1950s. For many decades, it has been on the wall of our living room in Helsinki, Finlad.

Now in 2025, I tried picture search and found a similar painting by Jeanne Brandsma, sold by Sulis Fine Art in England. They informed that "Jeanne Brandsma was born in Belgium in 1902. She was married to sculptor Frederik (Frits) Jan van Hall."

Then searching for "Jeanne Brandsma", I found this thread, and after reading it, I am more confused than in the beginning.

In the first posts, it was revealed that the girl of the painting is Annabella, the daughter of Jeanne Brandsma.

Then we had Post 5, revealing further that "Jeanne Brandsma made several different portraits in the gipsy theme, signed with various signatures (Corelli, Peter, V Dias, Brandsma and others)".

Later in the thread, Radboud Stam informed that Jeanne Brandsma was a pseudonym by Hendrik Theodorus Jaspers, also known as Henk Jaspers.

So did I understand correctly: The girl in my painting could be called Annabella, the daughter of Jeanne Brandsma and Frits van Hall. However, Jeanna Brandsma was just a pseudonym by Henk Jaspers. So is this whole family (Jeanne, Frits, Annabella) just a fictional story?

 

Any signature on yours? If not, it could just be a copy done by someone else. I see stylistic differences that point to this being by another hand. Possibly even a factory painting. Can we see the back?

 

No signature, at least not visible. Anyway, my key objective is to understand the background story.

Here's the backside:

 

Looks like it has been re-stretched to fit this frame. Consequently, can't infer much from the back (or the frame).

 

Thanks for the frame analysis. So, coming back to the original question:

If Jeanna Brandsma is a pseudonym by Henk Jaspers, is the family of Jeanne, Frits and Annabella just a fictional story?