Charles Henri Joseph Leickert (22 September 1816, Brussels

Brussels

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 - 5 December 1907, Mainz

Mainz

Mainz under the Holy Roman Empire, and previously was a Roman fort city which commanded the west bank of the Rhine and formed part of the northernmost frontier of the Roman Empire...

) was a Belgian

Belgium

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 painter of Dutch

Netherlands

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 landscapes.

Orphan Leickert first learned painting in The Hague

The Hague

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 under the supervision of landscape painters Bartholomeus van Hove, Wijnand Nuijen

Wijnand Nuijen

Wijnand Jan Josephus Nuijen was a Dutch painter and printmaker who specialised in landscapes, and was greatly influenced by the French Romantics....

, and Andreas Schelfhout

Andreas Schelfhout

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

 among many others. Leickert specialised in winter scenes, sometimes romanticising the sky in pale blues and bright pinks. He painted almost all his works in the Netherlands, from 1841-1848 in The Hague and from 1849-1883 in Amsterdam

Amsterdam

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. In 1856, he became a member of the Royal Academy of Amsterdam. At the age of 71 he moved to Mainz, Germany

Germany

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 where he later died in 1907.

Further reading

External links

• Charles Leickert at Artcyclopedia
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