page_title: Louis-Pierre Verwee
section_title: Work
hierarchical_section_title: Louis-Pierre Verwee / Work
context_page_description: Louis-Pierre Verwee or Louis Pierre Verwée was a Belgian painter known for his rural landscapes with cattle and winter landscapes. He is the principal representative of the Romantic school in Belgian landscape painting characterised by a return to nature.
context_section_description: Louis-Pierre Verwee was a landscape and animal painter. His early works are similar to those of his master Verboeckhoven, to the extent that it is often difficult to distinguish their work. Verboeckhoven sometimes painted the figures and animals in Verwee's pictures.
  Verwee's paintings of forests and rivers are in the stereotypical, romantic way that can be found in the landscapes of the painters Andreas Schelfhout (1787–1870), Barend Cornelis Koekkoek (1803–1862), Frans Keelhoff (1820–1893) and Johann Bernard Klombeck (1815–1893).
  In the later part of his career he strived for innovation, but from 1837 onwards he became stuck in ever-changing winter landscapes. This type of winter landscapes had become popular due to the work of Barend Cornelis Koekkoek and Andreas Schelfhout. Louis-Pierre Verwee depicted these landscapes with low-hanging, heavy snow clouds over wintry land and waterways and dotted with figures. He used light blue and metallic gray in his color palette in an effort to suggest the intimate, moody aspect of such landscapes. In some of these paintings Florent Willems and Verboeckhoven painted the figures.
  He made a number of lithographs after works of Eugène Verboeckhoven.
caption: Wooded river landscape with shepherdess and cattle
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