Willem Roelofs
Willem Roelofs was a Dutch painter, water-colourist, etcher, lithographer and draughtsman. Roelofs was one of the forerunners of the Dutch Revival art, after the Romantic Classicism of the beginning of the 19th century, which led to the formation of The Hague school. His landscapes, especially the early ones with their dominating cloudy skies, demure bodies of water and populated with cattle, are typical for the School of Barbizon.
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- Born in
- Amsterdam
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Trending topics shown first"Lately I have been asking for landscape with animals, so I have devoted a lot of time this year sketching cows."
"I have focused on your desire to bring in more effect .. ..with more light in the drawing, was not the least difficult.. .. has passed tricky moments; but I believe I have remained master of the area …"
"I can not get used to the idea of staying here always. One stays always a 'stranger' here and I miss the support from each other one has in his own country. I sometimes wonder what will be more my adv…"
"... with the aim to apply it as a painter, as well as in my quality of entomologist .. .. what parts, provinces or regions of our country 'least' visited from an entomological point of view ..?"
"I hope to compensate this year the damage of so little studies once and for all because most of the old ones I already used ."
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1822
Born
Birth1897
Died
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