Hendrik van de Sande Bakhuyzen

Hendrik (Hendrikus) van de Sande Bakhuyzen (2 January 1795 – 12 December 1860) was a Dutch landscape painter and art teacher.

He was born under the name Hendrikus Bakhuyzen in the Hague in 1795,[2] the son of prominent publisher Gerrit Bakhuysen (1758–1843) and Jacoba van de Sande (1757–1815).

In 1819 he obtained a Royal Decree granting legal permission to add his late mother's surname to his own and became known as Hendrikus van de Sande Bakhuyzen.

His son Henricus Gerardus van de Sande Bakhuyzen (1838–1923) became a prominent astronomer, member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences,[3] and director of the Leiden Observatory.

His fellow students included Andreas Schelfhout and Bart van Hove, each of them significant for the development of the Hague School.

[9] Even after his death, Hendrik's work continued to be displayed prominently in the family studio where his artist son and daughter painted.

[8] He is known for his Romantic pastoral scenes (especially paintings of livestock) with detailed landscapes, notably inspired by Golden Age artist Paulus Potter and continuing the Realist tradition of that era.

The Hague School of artists sought to transition from the romantic realism of the preceding generation to a new style that emphasized mood and movement.

"[10] The painters of the Hague School used muted tones and more diffuse brushstrokes to add a sense of weather and often somber moods to their landscapes and genre scenes.

In his 23 December 1889 letter to his mother from the San Remy-de-Provence asylum he wrote: "And now it's certain that the work they're making here at present is very different — more colourful and more forthrightly drawn than what people used to do in Holland in the time of Schelfhout, say.