“To Blommers, children represented happiness and innocence, and he often captured children’s play in his pictures. He himself once said that although he saw children by the sea almost everyday, they offered him something new every time. (‘Ja, dat schilder ik graag, zulke kinderen aan zee. Ik zie ze bijna iedere dag zoo, en toch altijd weer is ‘t nieuw, moet ik er even bij stilstaan.’ (T. de Liefde-van Brakel, B. J. Blommers (1845-1915), Katwijk, 1993, p. 39).”

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