Cornelis Lieste (1817 Haarlem - 1861 ibid.) Cornelis Lieste was born in Haarlem in 1817 and was a Dutch landscape painter of the Romantic period.



Ebenjene is characterized by the "small man", compared to the great nature and its outstanding splendor. He feels inferior to nature, yet he has a deep and venerable admiration for it and cultivates his feelings. Thus, in the oil painting of the river landscape on the Lower Rhine, we also have few figures acting in the wooded landscape. Like a repoussoir figure turning his back to us viewers, two people in a small boat on the calm water and a peasant couple in the left half of the picture. In the background, the Klever Schwanenburg can be seen, so it is said t...