A Winter Scene with Skaters near a Castle is an oil-on-oak painting undertaken between 1608 and 1609 by the Dutch artist Hendrick Avercamp.

[1] As with a number of Avercamp's works, the picture is part of the Flemish tradition of painting "the harmony of human activity and the cycle of nature".

[2] He was influenced in his subject by the Little Ice Age, particularly the cold winter of 1607–08,[3] and was the first of the Dutch painters to specialise in snow scenes.

[4] The painting was acquired by the National Gallery in London in 1891 and remains in its collection, as at 2020.

[1] On acquisition it was square in shape, but during cleaning in 1983 it was established that Avercamp's original was circular, and the surrounding pieces were made by another artist.