Adolf van der Venne - horses and genre painting

 Salvete Omnes, 

Adolf van der Venne (1828-1911) was an Austrian maestro of brush and paint. specializing in genre paintings. especially horses and animals and their keepers, but also in  historic paintings. He studied at the Akademie der bildenden Künste in Vienna, and spent several years in the historic region of Central Europe known as Banat. His art is collectible and appears at galleries and auctions.

this collection of his paintings can be found on wiki commons

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His son Fritz also became a painter. 

Valete