Schelfhout was from The Hague, and was a renowned landscape painter. He was one of the main figures in the romantic movement in the Netherlands, and was inspired by 17th century landscape painters such as Ruisdael and Hobbema. He is particularly known for his winter scenes, and, like the English painter John Constable, he sketched outside to capture his scenes, and worked them up in his studio. He travelled widely, going to Germany, France and England to learn from painters in those countries – including Constable in England.
Moerenhout was from the Antwerp area, and was a painter of figures and animals. In the 1840s he was living in The Hague, and collaborated with a number of landscape artists. The Cheltenham Examiner notes in 1899 that this is ‘an animated scene of sportsmen and skaters’, and you can see that there has been a successful hunt of ducks and other water birds on the frozen river or lake, and that there are skaters in the distance.
Moerenhout, Jozef Jodocus, 1801-1874|Schelfhout, Andreas, 1787-1870; Winter Scene with a Sleigh
Winter Scene with a Sleigh by Andreas Schelfhout, and Jozef Moerenhout, 1840. Oil on panel.
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