Skaters on a Frozen Pond

Private collection

landscape

Landscapes and cityscapes were a very popular art form in the Netherlands during the nineteenth century. Many artists rejected the more classical French landscape, aiming instead for Dutch landscape with rivers and windmills and looked back to the 'Golden Age' of the seventeenth century for inspiration. Charles Leickert worked during this period and became known for his landscape and cityscape paintings.

About the Artist

Charles Henri Joseph Leickert

1816 – 1907

Belgian painter active in the Netherlands. He first learned painting in The Hague under the supervision of landscape painters Bartholomeus van Hove, Wijnand Nuijen, and Andreas Schelfhout among many others. Leickert specialised in winter scenes, sometimes romanticising the sky in pale blues and bright pinks. He painted almost all his works in the Netherlands, from 1841-1848 in The Hague and from 1849-1883 in Amsterdam. In 1856, he became a member of the Royal Academy of Amsterdam. At the age of 71 he moved to Mainz, Germany where the Mittelrheinisches Landesmuseum holds his sketchbooks and drawings. He died in 1907.

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