Willem Josiah de Gruyter (1899-1979)

The White House, Leiden  1921

Etching, signed and titled in pencil
Platemark size 200mm x 230mm

£65

Born in Singapore, where his father worked for a petroleum company, the family moved to the Netherlands but at
the outbreak of World War I they settled in England. De Gruyter attended the Beckenham School of Arts and Crafts
and the Royal College of Art in London. In 1922 he received his diploma of etching. He returned to the Netherlands
and became an art critic. De Gruyter was a director of the Groninger Museum (1955-1963) and chief curator of the
Gemeentemuseum, The Hague (1963-1965).


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