Andreas Schelfhout
Andreas Schelfhout (1787-1870) was one of the most popular and talented Dutch landscape painters of the nineteenth century. He is known primarily as a painter of winter landscapes depicting snow and ice, as well as skating scenes on the ice of the Dutch canals. Schelfhout's paintings are distinguished by their vibrant colors and naturalistic, rich brush strokes in depicting nature, especially the changing weather. Sometimes the artist painted summer landscapes, sea scenes, but most of all he loved the winter landscape. Until the age of 24, he worked for his father, who had an atelier for the production and sale of photographs. Then he began to study painting with the artist Joannes Breckenheymer (1772-1856). In 1815. Andreas Schelfhout exhibited his first painting with a winter landscape, which was an unprecedented success with art critics, which was the beginning of a long and illustrious career of the artist. Andreas actively collaborated with other contemporary artists: Pieter GerardusvanOs, Joseph Moerenhout and Jacobus Eeckhout, the latter often added his figures to the artist's landscapes. Andreas Schelfhout exhibited regularly in The Hague, Amsterdam. Among his students were the famous artists Charles Leickert, Nicholas Roosenboom and Willem Troost. He also greatly influenced the work of one of the predecessors of Impressionism, Johan Barthold Jongkind. Andreas Schelfhout's works are widely represented in many museums around the world
