Five Pastoral Landscapes with Gentlefolk and Peasants outside a Manor House

Material

Oil on canvas; each 266.5 x 206 cm

Dating

1750-1800

About the artist

The German landscape painter Hendrik Willem Schweickhardt moved to Den Haag in 1774. There he became a student of Hieronimus Lapis and was inspired first of all by the art of 17th century Dutch painters. The influence of Albert Cuyp is particularly visible in Schweickhardt’s work and for his decorative mural art and scenes with putti he mainly oriented himself towards French Rococo painters such as François Boucher and Jean-Honoré Fragonard.
Later Schweickhardt became a teacher himself and taught among others Pieter Gaal, Andrea Scacciati and his own daughter Katharina Wilhelmina Schweickhardt. Around 1778 the artist moved to London, where he exhibited his works at the Royal Academy and elsewhere. Today his portraits, genre and landscape paintings, etchings and miniatures are found in renowned international museums and many private collections.