Johann Bernard Klombeck & Eugène Verboeckhovenartist • painterKleef (Duitsland) 1815-1893 Warneton (B.) 1798-1811 Schaarbeek (B.)

Born in Kleve, Klombeck was one of B.C. Koekkoek's most talented students. He painted dreamy, romantic landscapes and woodland scenes with cattle and a few figures on a sandy path, a river, or a valley in the distance. He also specialized in wintery woodland scenes with frozen streams and majestic, spreading oaks as focal points. His collaboration with the Belgian Eugène Verboeckhoven began in the 1860s. This painter regularly added cattle and figures to his landscapes. Such collaborations were not unusual at the time. Verboeckhoven also decorated landscapes by other Dutch artists, such as B.C. and M.A. Koekkoek, F.M. Kruseman, J.F. Hoppenbrouwers, and A.J. Daiwaille.