![George Hendrik Breitner - Reclining Nude [c.1887] by Gandalf's Gallery](http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2822/12218324763_77386cf95c.jpg)
George Hendrik Breitner (Rotterdam, September 12, 1857 - Amsterdam, June 5, 1923) was a Dutch painter and photographer. By the turn of the century Breitner was a famous painter in the Netherlands, as demonstrated by a highly successful retrospective exhibition at Arti et Amicitiae in Amsterdam (1901). Breitner travelled frequently in the last decades of his life, visiting Paris, London, and Berlin, among other cities, and continued to take photographs. In 1909 he went to the United States as a member of the jury for the Carnegie International Exhibition in Pittsburgh. Although Breitner exhibited abroad early on, his fame never crossed the borders of the Netherlands.
[Gemeentemuseum Den Haag - Oil on canvas, 134 x 224.5 cm]