Post 167 -Gautam Shah
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Charles Leickert (1818-1907) was born in Brussels. He was a Belgian Romantic painter. He painted substantial number of art works in the Netherlands, The Hague (1841-1846) and in Amsterdam (1849-1883). Leickert learned to paint winter scenes from his teacher Andreas Schelfhout. He painted many scapes in varied climatic and illumination conditions. He used pale skies with blue and purple colours to romanticise the scenes.
Leickert painted exquisite Dutch ice scenes, summer landscapes and river views in which he incorporated all kinds of motifs from his sketchbooks. After 1859 he also painted beach scenes and cityscapes. The appeal of his paintings owes much to the splendid play of light and highly narrative detail.
After the end of the French occupation in 1815, Dutch developed great pride in all things of the Netherlands, and in the circumstances art of landscapes and cityscapes by Leickert were a very popular art-form. He lived a long life of nearly ninety years, to produce a large number of paintings in varied styles, some seven hundred paintings. He also painted sparkling effects of light with quick impressionist bush strokes to give more contemporary feel. ‘He painted the cluttered banks of the Amstel River, a picturesque embankment near a ferry to the city of Dordrecht, and ice scenes with Dutch windmills and skaters.’ Leickert made several versions of a painting, relying on a collection of sketches. He ‘dressed up’ his landscapes with common figures.
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