Willem van de Wakker, 1848-1927. Title: Molens in de polder in avondrood. Medium: oil on panel. Size: 24 x 30 cm. Signed:on the lower right w v-d wakker. Period: 1880-1910. Framed in a handmade top wooden frame that measures 40 x 34 cm. Painting condition: good, no restorations, see picture. Painting is in very good condition. Condition frame: in very good condition, included for free. Frame: very good, handmade top frame, no damages, free of auction. Will be shipped as a registered parcel. Pick up in Zaandam is possible by appointment. Willem van de Wakker, a wandering telegrapher. Vincent gave painting lessons to Willem van de Wakker (1859-1927). Van de Wakker was a telegrapher at the post office in Nuenen and a amateur painter. When Vincent saw his art work at the painter shop Baijens, he wanted to meet him. Van de Wakker then lived in Eindhoven, just like Antoon Hermans and Anton Kerssemakers, whom Vincent taught as well. It was his plan to ask them to give him painting materials in exchange for lessons. Vincent liked teaching painting, as this brought him into contact with people. A lot of people went to the Van Gogh Museum Vincentre to also visit the (temporary) exhibition about the four Eindhoven painter friends of Vincent van Gogh. About one of them, the Eindhoven railway telegrapher Willem van de Wakker, was told that Vincent once took him away from his station office during work time. They had to paint urgently! Visitors wanted to know a bit more about that man. Who was Willem van de Wakker? He was a pupil of Vincent van Gogh in 1884/1885. Unsold work In the Van Gogh Museum Vincentre now features four works by Willem van de Wakker. Every visitor can decide for themselves to which extent they exhibit traits of his teacher Vincent van Gogh. We can, however, determine that there is one similarity between Willem and his teacher Vincent: both painters did not sell any work during their lives. After his death on 30 April 1927, the Van de Wakker family tried to sell Willem’s paintings at Sotheby's. Everything, however, went unsold and was then divided among the family members. In 2012, the Vincentre, as part of their exhibition "Brabant en Den Haag uit de doeken” received a royal gift, consisting of four watercolours by Willem van de Wakker.