Lot 25: Hendrik Voogd (Dutch, 1766-1839)

The Roman Campagna, the Tor de' Schiavi
signed and dated 'H. Voogd/1824' (lower left)
oil on canvas
24 7/8 x 32 3/4 in. (63.2 x 83.2 cm.)
Painted in 1824.

C.J. De Bruyn Kops, 'Hendrik Voogd. Nederlands Landschapschilder te Rome (1786-1839)' in Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, no. 21, 1970, pp. 319-69.
F. Kuyenhoven, 'De leidse collectie tekeningen en grafiek von Hendrik Voogd', in Leids Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, 1985, pp. 269-95.

The pastoral landscape depicted in the present painting lies in the Campagna to the east of Rome on the Via Prenestina. The Tor de' Schiavi, originally a fourth to fifth-century mausoleum, is on the site of what was once the imposing Villa Gordiani. The location was well known to Voogd because it was where the Ponte Molle Society staged a festive gathering each spring. The Society was founded by German artists living in Rome in 1812.

Voogd was trained by the Amsterdam landscape painter Jurriaan Andriessen. He travelled to Rome in 1788 and lived there for the rest of his life. He was appointed an honorary member of the Accademia di S. Luca in 1816 and six years later he was invited to join the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam. He is buried in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome close to the Cestius Pyramid.

Voogd had links to German and Austrian artists working in Rome and particularly to the Nazarene painters Joseph Anton Koch and Johann Christian Reinhart. He was chiefly a landscape painter - contemporaries called him the 'Dutch Claude Lorrain'. Classical influences are uppermost in his work up to 1805, but his later landscapes, both ideal and topographic - usually depicting the environs of Rome - are naturalistic in interpretation. Although Voogd left behind a rich body of graphic work, only twenty to thirty paintings are known to survive today - all dating from the period between 1795 and 1831.

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