Charles Henri Joseph Leickert

Charles Henri Joseph Leickert  was born in Brussels on 22 September 1816, he was a Belgian painter of Dutch landscapes. Specialising in winter landscapes, he explored the nuances of the evening sky and the roseate dawn, often romanticising the sky in pale blues and bright pinks.
Leickert studied painting in The Hague under the supervision of landscape painters Bartholomeus van Hove, Wijnand Nuyen, and Andreas Schelfhout, among many others, but it was Schelfhout in particular who had a dominant influence on his work. 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.

He painted almost all of his works in the Netherlands, in The Hague from 1841–1846 and in Amsterdam from 1849–1883. In 1856, he became a member of the Royal Academy of Amsterdam. At the age of 71 he moved to Mainz, Germany, where he died in 1907.

Museums

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam