Painting Lot A-81033
Izaac Reijnders  (1809 – 1873)
Wood gatherers in a hilly countryside

Oil on canvas, 64 x 88 cm

Painting

The painting by Izaac Reijnders is in a romantic style. It resembles the grandeur of nature and the insignificance of the human being. In the painting two loggers are resting in the forrestThis painting is signed on the lower right and dated 1851. The frame of this painting is a gold painted the 20th-century frame.

Painter

Izaac Reijnders started as a house painter but became famous as autodidact art painter with his beautiful landscape paintings. Several of his prints are collected with the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Izaac Reijnders was included in the ‘Waller Biographic Lexicon of the North-Netherlands’ engravers 1838 as well as in the ‘Lexicon Dutch Visual Artists 1750 – 1950’by Pieter A. Scheen.