Louwrens Hanedoes - Dorpsgezicht - Sold

39x51x1cm In excellent condition
Hanedoes studied from 1839 to 1840 at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and then with Barend Cornelis Koekkoek and Cornelis Kruseman. He was a fellow student of Charles Rochussen and Willem Roelofs. Initially he worked in the romantic style, especially under the influence of Koekkoek. He mainly painted landscapes and for this he traveled to mountainous areas such as the Eifel, Auvergne, the Pyrenees and Switzerland. In the Netherlands he often worked around Arnhem and Oosterbeek.
Around 1850 Hanedoes was one of the first Dutch painters to visit Barbizon, after which he switched to a more realistic style. As such, he was considered an important innovator in his time and he preluded the emergence of the Hague School. In the 1850s many Belgian and French critics regarded him as the most important Dutch landscape painter.
In 1863 Hanedoes was made a knight in the Order of Leopols. After that, his productivity as a painter gradually declined. At a later age he withdrew to his parents' country house, the Kraaiveld estate in Woudrichem. There he died in 1905, unmarried, aged 82. His work can be found in the collections of the Dordrechts Museum, the Gemeentemuseum The Hague, the Museum Arnhem, the Teylers Museum, the Frans Hals Museum, the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. A street in The Hague's Benoordenhout district is named after him.