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Charles
Leickert
Belgian [1816-1907]
SUMMER CANAL SCENE
Oil on panel
8 1/2 x 11 1/2 ins.
Sold @ $ 18,700
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Charles Leickert is
considered one of the best artists of 19th century Dutch
Romanticism. Leickert did not aim for an accurate visual
representation of the Dutch landscape. Rather he tried
to render an idealized version of a world that already
in Leickert’s time seemed to be rapidly disappearing.
In the 1840’s and 1850’s this “Golden Age”
version of The Netherlands became very popular. His
numerous winter landscapes with the charming skating
scenes are what he seems to be best known for, but his
summer landscapes are equally skillful evocations of a
tranquil vision of the Dutch rural land.
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