Eugène Verboeckhoven Art

Eugène Joseph Verboeckhoven, (Belgian, 1799-1881) Not Signed The Belgian painter was born at Warneton in West Flanders. He was a painter, a sculptor, an etcher, an engraver, and a lithographer of animals, animated landscapes, and portraits. Eugène Verboeckhoven...

"Sheep At Pasture" landscape painting by Eugene Verboeckhoven (Belgian, 1798-1881) Oil on panel; Signed lower left "Eug. Verboeckhoven 1862"; six...

This gorgeous little scene depicts a goat grazing in the hay covering the floor of an old barn, the worn stone walls and aged wooden beams giving a sense of the building’s history. Resting quietly in the warmth of the hay is a sheep and a young lamb on the brink of sleep. It is a nostalgic work that is incredibly fine in the execution of the details - each animal’s facial features are depicted with perfect clarity and the warm palette throughout creates a consistent mood in the scene. The lower left corner is signed in his typical script “Eugene Verboeckhoven...

A perfect early 19th century oil on panel depicting a delightful illustration of sheep and goats. Signed lower left and dated 1825. Eugen Joseph Verboeckhoven studied with his father, and became a skilful sculptor, and later a great painter. The strict disciplines of the modeler gave the painter a trueness of form. He continued the tradition of Paul Potter and Ommeganck, and if he did not equal the former, he surpassed the latter. As a sculptor and painter with a romantic turn of mind, Verboeckhoven's depictions of animals, the main feature of his works, had an international reputation in his lifetime. They were executed according to a scumbling process which made them smooth and velvety, and appear bathed in a golden light. His success was particularly marked in the USA and England, where a large number of his works are held. Verboeckhoven was a member of the academies in Belgium, Antwerp and St Petersburg. The highest distinctions were heaped on him: the Cross of the Légion d'Honneur, the Order of Leopold of Belgium, the Order of Christ...

A delightful scene of sheep at pasture with a few chickens resting amongst them in the shade of some small foliage. The bright scene is typical of Verboeckhoven (1798-1881), whose no...

A beautiful little work by the master of genre animal scenes, this romantic work of the Second Empire shows a seated rider on the road to Arnhem in the Netherlands. The horse is exq...