Original Hungarian Folk Art A. Kozary Signed Oil Painting On Wood Of Amsterdam

Original Hungarian Folk Art A. Kozary Signed Oil Painting On Wood. An impressive work of art. The painting depicts the charming peaceful lives of the Pilgrims in Amsterdam. The image is delightful, colorful and the artist has successfully portrayed a harmonious Old World Family Oriented scene. The vibrant colors along with the ‘Naive’ style of art is especially inviting. Shipped with UPS. Shipping fees include handling & full insurance. Measurements: 20 1/2”H x 24 3/8”W. Condition: Beautiful condition considering its age. Please Examine Photos Carefully for condition. ABOUT Pilgrims & Netherlands: Before ever setting foot in North America, the Pilgrims spent several years living in Holland (Netherlands). Led by William Brewster and John Robinson, the group initially fled to Amsterdam in 1608 to escape religious persecution for holding clandestine services that were not sanctioned by the Church of England. The Pilgrims were religious nonconformists—Calvinist dissidents who disliked the hierarchical authority of the Anglican Church and sought a more democratic and direct religious experience. Life in Amsterdam offered the group the freedom to worship as they liked, but there the congregation quickly became embroiled in theological disputes and scandals with other separatists. This prompted many from the Scrooby congregation to move on to Leiden. When Robinson and Brewster’s flock arrived, the population was 40,000. Most of the hundred or so people in the Pilgrim congregation lived in one-room cottages near Leiden University, in the shadow of the Pieterskerk, the oldest church in the city. People cobbled together whatever work they could—about half of the congregation took jobs as textile workers, the leading industry in Leiden at the time. Others were carpenters, soldiers, teachers, pipe makers, and hat makers. The Netherlands, however, was a land whose culture and language were strange and difficult for the English congregation to understand or learn. They found the Dutch morals much too libertine, and their children were becoming more and more Dutch as the years passed. The congregation came to believe that they faced eventual extinction if they remained there. So, about a decade after they had arrived, the congregation decided it was time to move once again. Leiden was a city of many canals, so when the Scrooby pilgrims were ready to leave in July 1620, they boarded several small boats on the Rapenburg canal (near the university). This narrow canal fed into the larger Vliet canal, which flows from Leiden toward Delft. After continuing toward Delfshaven and staying there for a night, the group boarded the Speedwell, a 60-ton vessel capable of trans-Atlantic voyages. They charted a course to Southampton, in southern England, and met up with the Mayflower. Both ships were supposed to sail to the New World together, but the Speedwell was found to be taking on water and returned to port. Shipped with UPS. Shipping fees include handling & full insurance. SHIPPING EXCLUSIONS: Bahamas, Bermuda, Brunei, Darussalam, Cayman Islands, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Djibouti, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Polynesia, Guyana, Honduras, India, Iran, Jamaica, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Madagascar, Maldives, Mauritania, Mauritius, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, New Caledonia, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Samoa, Somalia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Wallis and Futuna, Western Sahara, Zimbabwe