Hendrik Voogd (;''Voogd'' in isolation: . 10 July 1768 – 4 September 1839) was a Dutch

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and

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, who was active in

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Life

Hendrik Voogd was born on 10 July 1768 in

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in the

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.Hendrik Voogd

Netherlands Institute for Art History The Netherlands Institute for Art History or RKD (Dutch: RKD-Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis), previously Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD), is located in The Hague and is home to the largest art history center i ...

, 2014. Retrieved on 10 February 2015. Beginning in 1783, Voogd studied at a local Academy and then later apprenticed under the wallpaper painter Jurriaan Andriessen. The financial aid of the Amsterdam art collector D. Versteegh (1751–1822) enabled him to depart in 1788 for

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to obtain further training in landscape painting. While in Italy, Voogd befriended many famous landscape painters, such as Nicolas-Didier Boguet,

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and Johann Martin von Rohden. Little is known about his life. He remained in Italy apart from a short visit to the Netherlands in 1828. He never married and is not known to have had any children. Voogd died on 4 September 1839 in

in the

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. From his obituary, it seems he was considered to be an old-fashioned artist of little influence. The discovery in 1959 of about two hundred of his drawings in Duivenvoorde Castle in

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revived interest in his work. Portret van Hendrik Voogd

Work

It is apparent, from one of his infrequent letters home, that Voogd made numerous drawings of Rome and its surroundings, including

Tivoli, Lazio Tivoli ( , ; la, Tibur) is a town and in Lazio, central Italy, north-east of Rome, at the falls of the Aniene river where it issues from the Sabine hills. The city offers a wide view over the Roman Campagna. History Gaius Julius Solinu ...

Lake Albano Lake Albano (Italian: ''Lago Albano'' or ''Lago di Castel Gandolfo'') is a small volcanic crater lake in the Alban Hills of Lazio, at the foot of Monte Cavo, southeast of Rome. Castel Gandolfo, overlooking the lake, is the site of the Papal Pa ...

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, and

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. Some of these drawings, executed mostly in pencil and black chalk, consist of motifs taken directly from nature, such as trees and rocks; others portray views. Voogd's works from his first Roman years are primarily drawings with colored wash in the typical late 18th-century linear style. One of his major influences was

Claude Lorrain Claude Lorrain (; born Claude Gellée , called ''le Lorrain'' in French; traditionally just Claude in English; c. 1600 – 23 November 1682) was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher of the Baroque era. He spent most of his life in It ...

. Due to the similarities in style he was nicknamed the 'Dutch Claude Lorrain'. However, in spite of these influences Voogd still retained influences from his Dutch heritage. He experimented with unusual lighting effects and luxuriant foliage, and from 1806 onwards cattle began to feature prominently in his drawings and paintings. Some of his works can be found at the

Rijksmuseum The Rijksmuseum () is the national museum of the Netherlands dedicated to Dutch arts and history and is located in Amsterdam. The museum is located at the Museum Square in the borough of Amsterdam South, close to the Van Gogh Museum, the St ...

. Hendrik Voogd - Italian landscape with Umbrella Pines.jpg, ''Italian Landscape with Umbrella Pines'', 1807.

Voogd-Passage du gué.JPG, ''Passage at the ford'', 1819.

Musée Fabre The Musée Fabre is a museum in the southern French city of Montpellier, capital of the Hérault ''département''. The museum was founded by François-Xavier Fabre, a Montpellier painter, in 1825. Beginning in 2003, the museum underwent a 61.2 m ...

Hendrik Voogd - View of Rome from the window.jpg, ''View of Rome from the Window'', 1809 Hendrik Voogd - View of the Roman Campagna - WGA25295.jpg, ''View of the Roman Campagna'', 1814. Private collection Hendrik Voogd - Een stier aangevallen door een hond in een Italiaans landschap - 3317 (OK) - Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.jpg, ''A Bull Attacked by a Dog in an Italian Landscape'', 1832.

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Municipal Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen () is an art museum in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The name of the museum is derived from the two most important collectors of Frans Jacob Otto Boijmans and Daniël George van Beuningen. It is located at ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Voogd, Hendrik 1768 births 1839 deaths Painters from Amsterdam Dutch painters Dutch male painters