"After the end of the French occupation of the Netherlands in 1815, a new sense of pride emerged in all things Dutch. Charles Leickert worked during this period and gained great notoriety for his winter landscape and cityscape paintings.

Leickert was born on September 22, 1816 in Brussels, Kingdom of the Netherlands, and began his artistic training at the age of eleven. In 1827, his father enrolled him in The Hague Drawing Academy. Perhaps Leickert's most influential teacher was Andreas Schelfhout (1787-1870), the renowned landscape artist best known for his winter scenes. It was under Shelfhout that Leickert diligently learned to paint winter scenes, and rapidly absorbed his master'Jackson's Auctioneers & Appraisers ...