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| Title | Landscape with Barn | |
| Collection | Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry | |
| Artist | Roelofs, Willem (Dutch painter and printmaker, 1822-1897) | |
| Date Earliest | about 1842 | |
| Date Latest | 1897 | |
| Signed | yes | |
| Description | Willem Roelofs was born in Amsterdam. When he was a young man his family moved to Utrecht, where his father was an artist. In 1839, they moved to The Hague so that the young Willem could study in the Academy and train in the atelier of H. van Sande-Bakhuyzen. In 1847 he was involved in the establishment of the artists' society The Hague Pulchri Studio, but the same year left The Hague and went to live in Brussels, where he remained until 1887. In the 1850s he discovered Barbizon in the Fontainebleau area of France, where he was much influenced by the Barbizon school. His student Hendrik Willem Mesdag was to become one of the masters of The Hague school, which Roelofs himself strongly influenced. He was also a renowned entomologist and expert on beetles. | |
| Current Accession Number | VA/1955/0541 | |
| Former Accession Number | 541/55 HAG835 | |
| Inscription | front lr 'W. Roelofs' | |
| Subject | landscape; buildings and gardens (barn) | |
| Measurements | 72.5 x 109 cm.0 cm (estimate) | |
| Material | oil on canvas | |
| Acquisition Details | Bequeathed by Lord Kenilworth 1954. | |
| Principal Exhibitions | Exhibition of Pictures, Herbert Temporary Art Gallery, Coventry, 1954, cat. no. 12; Lord Kenilworth's Art Collection, Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry, 1996. | |
| Notes | Back: label on stretcher '3088'. Label on back of frame 'NOTCHETT'S FINE ART AGALELRY AND PICTURE FRAMING WORKS 136, PARADE LEAMINGTON SPA' | |
| Rights Owner | Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry | |
| Author | Dr Patricia Smyth | |