Wijnand Nuijen artwork • painting • previously for sale Conversation at the city gate
Wijnand Nuijen
Den Haag 1813-1839
1813-1839
Conversation at the city gate
oil on panel 19.2 x 15.1 cm, signed l.r. and dated '38
This painting was previously for sale.
W.J.J. Nuijen was a pupil of A. Schelfhout. During his short life – he died aged 26 – Nuyen developed an intense romantic vision on how a landscape should be portrayed, thereby giving a new impulse to Dutch landscape art. New for the time were his fresh use of colour and the animated staffage of his paintings. He chiefly painted landscapes, town and water views and also taught and advised J. Bosboom, C.H.J. Leickert and C. Rochussen.