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Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch (German 1824-1903) Evening landscape oil on panel signed lower left 12 x 16" 23 x 27" as framed . Weissenbruch received drawing classes from Johannes Low for three years. Later on he was trained by scenery painter Bart van Hove (1790-1880) and attended night classes at the Academy of the Hague. In 1849, two years after Weissenbruch staged his first exhibition, the Teylers Museum in Haarlem acquired one of his panoramic landscapes. Weissenbruch went from being a characteristic painter of Dutch Romanticism to one of the best representatives of the Hague School. His lively dune landscapes led to a series of atmospheric impressions of the Dutch polders, in which the artist paid special attention to his representation of the cloudy skies and stretches of water. These beautiful oil and watercolour landscapes were painted, almost without exception, with free and delicate brushstrokes. The artist found his inspiration in the surroundings of the city in which he resided, the Hague, and in Haarlem. Over the years he extended the focus of his work to Gouda, Boskoop, Delft and Schiedam. After 1875, Weissenbruch regularly returned to the wet landscapes found in the areas surrounding Nieuwkoop and Noorden. He only travelled abroad once. In the company of his friend, the art-dealer J. Slagmulder, he visited the Exposition Universelle in Paris in the year 1900 and he undertook an excursion to Barbizon, where he painted, among other subjects, Millet's house.