George Pieter Westenberg artwork • painting • for sale Country folk on a frozen canal outside the Lekpoort, Culemborg
George Pieter Westenberg
Nijmegen 1791-1873 Brummen
1791-1873
Country folk on a frozen canal outside the Lekpoort, Culemborg
oil on canvas 39.8 x 53.8 cm, signed l.l. and dated 1818
This painting is for sale.
This painting currently cannot be found in any of our galleries!
If a painting or image is located elsewhere, it is nearly always possible to see it in our galleries after making an appointment. Please contact our secretariat.
The painter-collector P.G. Westenberg was apprenticed to Jan Hulswit in Amsterdam at a young age. Together with his teacher he made a study trip in 1816 and 1817 through Gelderland and in Germany along the Rhine and Ruhr. He mainly painted romantic landscapes, also with moonlight, city and ice views. At the age of 47, Westenberg was appointed director of Paviljoen Welgelegen in Haarlem, the then national museum of 'contemporary' art. In 1857 he left for the Dutch East Indies for an administrative position. His work never prevented Westenberg from continuing to paint, although his production did decrease after 1840.
