12 Facts About Andreas Schelfhout

Andreas Schelfhout was a Dutch painter, etcher and lithographer, known for his landscape paintings.

Andreas Schelfhout became one of the most influential Dutch landscape artists of his century.

Andreas Schelfhout already started painting pictures in his spare time.

Andreas Schelfhout learned not only the technical aspects of painting, but made detailed studies of the 17th-century Dutch landscape artists Meindert Hobbema and Jacob van Ruisdael.

In 1815, Andreas Schelfhout started his own workshop and became a member of the Pulchri studio.

Andreas Schelfhout reputation continued to grow and in 1822 he was given the rank of Fourth Class Correspondent of the Royal Dutch Institute.

Andreas Schelfhout was mainly a studio artist, relying on his sketches done en plein air.

Andreas Schelfhout occasionally painted with his friend Hendrik van de Sande Bakhuyzen, a prominent Romantic landscape painter, including at least one joint canvas that bears both of their signatures.

Andreas Schelfhout advocated the use of watercolour in en plein air sketching.

Andreas Schelfhout encouraged Weissenbruch and invited him to take lessons from him, but it is not clear whether Weissenbruch ever did.

Andreas Schelfhout's death marked the end of the Romantic period in Holland.

Andreas Schelfhout is considered a precursor of the Hague School.