A Life of Quiet Observation Born in Haarlem, Hermanus Antonius Daalhoff lived a life that moved between the practicalities of labor and the soft edges of a private, inner world. In his youth, he sought his path through various cities, moving to Leiden at seventeen where he began to paint during his spare hours. By the age of twenty-two, his days were occupied by the heavy, rhythmic work of a baker in Amsterdam. This period of manual to…