Beek bij Nijmegen

Andreas Schelfhout (The Hague, 1787 - The Hague, 1870) was one of the most important Romantic painters of the nineteenth century. His summer and winter scenes in particular were loved by the Royal Family and collectors. This painting was made on the basis of a drawing that Schelfhout made when he stayed in the town of Beek near Nijmegen. The drawing was probably made during a visit to the French day and boarding school that his daughter Cornelia and her husband Johannes Rutjes ran there. Schelfhout traveled to Gelderland early in his career to be inspired by the landscape, just like Jacob van Ruisdael and Meindert Hobbema. In 1818 he made a study trip through the province with the artist Hendrikus van de Sande Bakhuyzen. In 1819 he won his first award at the Antwerp Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts with the representation of a Gelderland landscape. This work can be seen until September 23, 2018 in Gelderland Grensland, an exhibition at CODA Museum Apeldoorn that brings together landscape painting from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. An excellent opportunity to travel through the province of Gelderland on the basis of masterpieces from four centuries of art history! www.coda-apeldoorn.nl/gg Image: Andreas Schelfhout, View from the hills at Beek, 1840, oil on panel, loan from Amsterdam Museum, bequest CJ Fodor; On long-term loan from Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen