Cow painting by Willem Roelofs, c1860

Painting dimensions: 13.25 inches x 21.25 inches.
Total dimensions including frame: 16.5 inches x 24.75 inches.

Willem Roelofs was a Dutch 19th Century painter who was born in 1822. Their work is currently being shown at Rijksmuseum Schiphol in Amsterdam. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Kunstmuseum Den Haag have featured Willem Roelofs work in the past. Willem Roelofs work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 72 USD to 190,468 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 190,468 USD for Fontainebleau Forest, sold at MacDougall's in 2011. In MutualArts artist press archive, Willem Roelofs is featured in Six landscape paintings stolen from museum in second Dutch art heist in ten days, a piece from Daily Mail in May 2009. The artist died in 1887. (MutualArt.com)

He is said to have made his first sketches at the age of four; at fifteen he completed his first landscape painting. Many of these early works are in the print rooms of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, and the Gemeentemuseum, The Hague. In c1837 to c1838 he was apprenticed to the amateur painter Abraham Hendrik de Winter (1800 to 1861) in Utrecht, where the Roelofs family had moved in 1826. In 1838 he entered his first paintings in the Exhibition of Living Masters in Amsterdam and Rotterdam. In the late summer of 1840 Roelofs became a pupil of the landscape and animal painter Hendrik van de Sande Bakhuyzen (1795 to 1860), with whom he made a study trip to Germany in 1841. Roelofs took a special interest in nature: he applied himself energetically both to painting and drawing, almost always selecting landscape subjects. He also studied entomology and accumulated a large collection of insects. After his training he returned to his parents in Utrecht.
From 1848 to 1887 Roelofs lived in Brussels. His conception of landscape is comparable to that of Daubigny or Rousseau. He was an important predecessor of the Impressionists in Holland. (www.wga.hu)

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