Charles Leickert

Charles Leickert studied at Royal Academy of Art. The recorded working language is Dutch. Places of work recorded in the authority are The Hague, Amsterdam and Mainz. Works named in the authority record are Winter Scene, Winter op het IJ voor Amsterdam and Winter landscape. Work by Charles Leickert is recorded in the collections of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Museum Arnhem, Teylers Museum, Centraal Museum and Dordrechts Museum.

Charles Leickert first learned painting in The Hague under the supervision of landscape painters Bartholomeus van Hove, Wijnand Nuijen, and Andreas Schelfhout, among many others. Leickert specialised in winter scenes, sometimes romanticising the sky in pale blues and bright pinks, but he is equally well known for numerous cityscapes. He painted almost all of his works in the Netherlands, in The Hague from 1841 to 1846 and in Amsterdam from 1849 to 1883. In 1856, he became a member of the Royal Academy of Amsterdam. At the age of 71, he moved to Mainz, Germany, where he died in 1907. • Illustration — Ice View With Skaters • Illustration — Snowy street in Haarlem of Charles Leickert