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Charles Leickert first learned painting inΒ The HagueΒ under the supervision of landscape paintersΒ Bartholomeus van Hove,Β Wijnand Nuijen, andΒ Andreas Schelfhout, among many others. Leickert specialized in winter scenes, sometimes romanticising the sky in pale blues and bright pinks, but was also notorious for his summer scenes, like this painting. He painted almost all of his works in the Netherlands, in The Hague from 1841β1846 and inΒ AmsterdamΒ from 1849β1883. In 1856, he became a member of theΒ Royal Academy of Amsterdam. At the age of 71 he moved to Mainz, Germany, where he died in 1907.
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