Editorial comment for this plate:

With the plate.   (translated)

This time we give a heliogravure after a negative of the well-known amateur, Mr. B. W. Arendsen, of Amsterdam. A caption for this plate will be given at the end of our article on “the impression of clouds.” We will inform the readers therein how Mr. Arendsen acts to obtain his beautiful scents in nature and to preserve them during development.

We need hardly report that the beautiful clouds above “Marshy land” are not impressed, but printed over from the negative, without using any artificial means. We do not doubt that such a communication, directly borrowed from practice, will interest our readers and arouse them to imitation, which must certainly benefit their work.

Barend Arendsen: 1867-1918

The following biography is from the 2010 volume In atmosferisch licht : picturalisme in de Nederlandse fotografie, 1890-1925

Barend Arendsen started his working life as a confectioner. By the turn of the century he was a passionate amateur photographer, attracted to Pictorialism.

He mastered various processes and enjoyed in particular making carbon prints. Arendsen’s photographs and lantern slides of landscapes and street scenes, published and exhibited between 1901 and 1908, won several medals; particularly esteemed were his winter landscapes and studies of sheep.

Descendants of Arendsen have said that he played oboe in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra but, unable to earn his living, he looked for another profession. He was asked by the architect of the city’s Rijksmuseum, P.J.H. Cuypers (1827-1921), to do photographic work for the museum, and in time he became a professional photographer specializing in museum photography. Only a few examples of Arendsen’s work are held in public collections.