Jacobus Hendricus Johannes Nooteboom artwork • painting • previously for sale Mountainous landscape with figures on a bridge

Jacobus Hendricus Johannes Nooteboom lived and worked in Amsterdam for most of his life. He largely trained as a painter himself, but from 1830 to 1831 he was taught by the Ghent landscape painter Johannes Coucke. The painter must not have been without means, because he made many study trips, including to the Ardennes, Switzerland (1837) and several times to Germany (1836 and 1839). In the Netherlands he made many sketching trips through Gelderland and Overijssel. Nooteboom mainly painted romantic, mountainous landscapes with shepherds and cattle and Dutch seascapes. In the latter genre, his brushstroke gradually became freer and looser, without his work becoming really impressionistic.