Sheep In A Landscape, Dated 1858 By Eugene Verboeckhoven (1798-1881)

Sheep In A Landscape, dated 1858

by EUGENE VERBOECKHOVEN (1798-1881)

Large 19th Century Dutch view of sheep in a landscape, oil on canvas by Eugene Verboeckhoven. Excellent quality and condition view of a small flock of sheep resting. Exceptional quality and condition signed and dated. The work is uncommonly large for the artists oeuvre, likely painted as a private commission or for exhibition entry

Provenance: The estate of Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales

Measurements: 52" x 48" framed approx

Artist Biography

Eugen Joseph Verboeckhoven studied with his father, and became a skilful sculptor, and later a great painter. The strict disciplines of the modeller gave the painter a trueness of form. He continued the tradition of Paul Potter and Ommeganck, and if he did not equal the former, he surpassed the latter.

As a sculptor and painter with a romantic turn of mind, Verboeckhoven's depictions of animals, the main feature of his works, had an international reputation in his lifetime. They were executed according to a scumbling process which made them smooth and velvety, and appear bathed in a golden light. His success was particularly marked in the USA and England, where a large number of his works are held. Verboeckhoven was a member of the academies in Belgium, Antwerp and St Petersburg. The highest distinctions were heaped on him: the Cross of the Légion d'Honneur, the Order of Leopold of Belgium, the Order of Christ of Portugal, and the Iron Cross of Germany. He had a studio in Brussels, where he trained a large number of pupils. He sometimes worked in collaboration with other painters, notably with the Dutch painter Dawalle and with Werwée.
Museum and Gallery Holdings

Aix: Landscape with Cattle
Amsterdam: Pastures at Gooi; Landscape with Cattle; Starving Wolves
Amsterdam (Stedelijk Mus.): Ewe and Lamb
Antwerp: Cattle Grazing; Sheep and Chickens; Cows and Sheep; Rising Sea (with Charles Louis Verboeckhoven); Leaving for Market; The Artist; Studies of Animals (sculpture)
Berlin: Livestock Going out to Pasture
Bremen: Sheep in the Country
Brussels: Flock of Sheep Surprised by a Storm; Animals in the Countryside near Rome; Chickens(study)
Frankfurt am Main: Fold of Sheep
Graz: Flock of Sheep
Hamburg: Ponies
Kaliningrad: Man and Calf
La Fère: Animals Resting
Leeds (City AG): Wooded Landscape (1869, with Klombech)
Leipzig: White Horse; Sleeping Peasant and White Horse; Sheep in front of a Fold; Livestock, Storm; Sheep and Lambs; Sheep in a Fold; Cow, Goat and Chickens
Liège: Byre, Cow and Poultry
Liverpool: Sheep
London (Wallace Collection): Sheep and Cows (1844, oil/panel)
Montreal: Interior of a Cowshed; Farmyard Scene
Munich: Shed with Sheep
Nantes: Sheep in a Field
Nottingham: The Twins
Oslo: Forest Landscape with Animals
Reading: Landscape
Stockholm: Landscape, Dunes, Sheep Resting
Sunderland: Incoming Tide