Willem Bodeman & Eugène Verboeckhoven artwork • painting • for sale A wooded landscape with cows near a wild stream

The romantic painter Willem Bodeman was one of the first pupils of Barend Cornelis Koekkoek around 1826 and only three years younger than his teacher. Together the artists undertook study trips through Germany and Belgium and along the Rhine, Ahr and Maas. After he followed Koekkoek to Kleve, he created grand forest and winter landscapes. In Brussels, where Bodeman went to live in 1837, he often called on the help of the famous Belgian animal painter Eugène Verboeckhoven from 1841 onwards to furnish his landscapes with animals. This is also the case here. Collaboration between artists on a painting, with each painter contributing from his own specialism, was not unusual until well into the 19th century.