Charles Henri Joseph Leickert

LEICKERT, CHARLES HENRI JOSEPH (Brussels 1816 - 1907 Mainz) A square in a Dutch town. Oil on panel. Signed lower left: Ch. Leickert. 19 x 24.2 cm. Provenance: Swiss private collection. Christiaan Lucht M.A. has confirmed the authenticity of this work on the basis of a photograph. CHF 8 000.- / 12 000.- € 6 670.- / 10 000.- LEICKERT, CHARLES HENRI JOSEPH (Brüssel 1816 - 1907 Mainz) Holländische Stadtansicht mit Dorfplatz. Öl auf Holz. Unten links signiert: Ch. Leickert. 19 x 24,2 cm. Provenienz: Schweizer Privatsammlung. Christiaan Lucht M.A. bestätigt die Eigenhändigkeit anhand einer Fotografie, wofür wir ihm danken. CHF 8 000.- / 12 000.- € 6 670.- / 10 000.-

Lot Description Charles Henri Joseph Leickert (Belgian, 1816-1907) Skaters by a Dutch hamlet signed 'Ch. Leickert' (lower left) oil on canvas 30 x 40½ in. (76.2 x 102.8 cm.) Lot Condition Report I confirm that I have read this Important Notice and agree to its terms. View Condition Report

Charles Henri Joseph Leickert (Brussels 1816-1907 Mainz) A winterlandscape with figures gathered around a 'koek-en-zopie' near a windmill, a village in the distance signed 'Chs. Leickert.f.' (lower right) oil on canvas 80.5 x 121.3 cm. In 1827, at the age of eleven, Charles Leickert started to follow classes at the Drawing Academy in The Hague. Born in Brussels, his family had just moved to the Dutch capital of The Hague. At the academy he became friends with fellow students such as Wijnand Nuyen (1813-1839), Antonie Waldorp (1803-1866), Salomon Verveer (1813-1876) and Johannes Franciscus Hoppenbrouwers (1819-1866). His most important tutor at the academy was the celebrated townscape painter Bartholomeus Johannes van Hove (1790-1880), who instructed him on the fundamental principles of the academic tradition, focusing on the rendering of line and chiaroscuro after plaster casts. Despite the death of his father and the resulting shortage of funds, Leickert's mother insisted that her son continued his education and convinced the board of the academy that the young Charles deserved a scholarship for drawing lessons. Once the talented Nuyen opened his own atelier in 1833, Leickert left the academy and joined his friend's new studio. Following Nuyen's untimely death in 1839, Leickert moved to the studio of Nuyen's tutor Andreas Schelfhout (1787-1870). This renowned landscape painter had great influence on the young Leickert, who made rapid progress and became one of Schelfhout's most prominent pupils. In a review of an exhibition held in 1844, an art critic wrote: '... Mr C. Leickert, of The Hague, demonstrates with his winter scene [...] that he has turned the lessons of his master to good use...'. Leickert would specialize in winter landscapes, the genre that had made his teacher famous. His other subjects were realistic landscapes and cityscapes in which figures were subservient to the landscape. In 1847 he was present at the founding of the Pulchri Studio in The Hague and he became a regular member of the artist's society 'Arti et Amicitiae' in Amsterdam. From 1848 onwards Leickert settled in Amsterdam, moving to the German city of Mainz in 1887. This hitherto unknown winter scene is a very fine example of Leickert's winter landscapes.

Auktion A162 Lot 3237 - 21 September 2012 17:00 * LEICKERT, CHARLES HENRI JOSEPH (Brussels 1816 - 1907 Mainz) Winter landscape with figures. Oil on canvas. Signed lower right: Ch. Leickert. 34 x 46 cm. Our thanks to Christiaan Lucht M.A. for confirming the authenticity of this work on the basis of a photograph. CHF 15 000.- / 20 000.- € 12 500.- / 16 670.- * LEICKERT, CHARLES HENRI JOSEPH (Brüssel 1816 - 1907 Mainz) Winterlandschaft mit Figuren. Öl auf Leinwand. Unten rechts signiert: Ch. Leickert. 34 x 46 cm. Christiaan Lucht M.A. bestätigt die Eigenhändigkeit anhand einer Fotografie, wofür wir ihm danken. CHF 15 000.- / 20 000.- € 12 500.- / 16 670.-

Charles Henri Joseph Leickert (Belgian, 1818-1907) Skaters on a Frozen Lake with a Koek-en-Zopie beyond signed and dated 'Ch. Leickert f. 70' (lower left) oil on canvas 24 x 39½ in. (61 x 100.3 cm.) Bequest from the Gorham Estate to Brueckner Museum of Starr Commonwealth, 1930. PROPERTY FROM THE BRUECKNER MUSEUM OF STARR COMMONWEALTH Orphaned at a young age, Charles Leickert began his artistic education in The Hague under the supervision of the landscape painters Bartolomeus van Hove, Wijnand Nuyen and Andreas Schelfhout. Leickert specialized in winter scenes, sometimes romanticizing the sky in pale blues and bright pinks. He painted almost all his works in the Netherlands; from 1841-1846 in The Hague and from 1849-1883 in Amsterdam. In 1856, he became a member of the Royal Academy of Amsterdam. At the age of 71, he moved to Mainz, Germany where he lived until his death in 1907.