Painting dimensions: 75 x 50 cm. Signed and dated 41.
An old restoration at the top of the painting on the left (see last photograph).
Gerard Bakker (The Hague, 1879-Knokke, 1967).
As a young painter, he travelled to France and Germany. He settled in Brussels at the beginning of the 20th century and ran a restoration workshop there. Painter of flowers, landscapes and seascapes. Creator and president of the "Kerkebeek" Circle in Evere.
Bibliography: Piron, dictionary of Belgian painters.