Andreas 'Andries' Schelfhout
Den Haag 1787-1870
A hilly river landscape with figures, oil on panel 32,9 x 38,2 cm., signed l.l. and painted mid '20
690035/Ko
Price band: between 15.000 and 25.000 euro
The winter ice scenes and summer landscapes of Andreas Schelfhout were already extremely popular during his own time. These were painted meticulously, with great technical refinement and with a pronounced feeling for anecdotal detail. He was the consummate artist in conveying the dry freezing cold of a winter’s day, or the sweet atmosphere of a summer landscape. Sometimes the livestock painter P.G. van Os added the cattle to his works. Along with B.C. Koekkoek, Schelfhout is the Netherlands’ most important romantic painter and his many pupils including C.H.J. Leickert, L.J. Kleijn, N.J. Roosenboom and, surprisingly enough, J.W. van Borselen and J.B. Jongkind.