About the artist
Andries Vermeulen was born in Dordrecht on 23 March 1763 and died in Amsterdam on 6 July 1814. The son of landscape painter Cornelis Vermeulen, he received his first training from his father and subsequently studied with Thomas Gaal. His career was centred on Dordrecht before his move to Amsterdam around 1803.
Vermeulen is best known for Dutch landscapes and, above all, animated winter scenes with skaters, sledges, figures and frozen waterways. He also painted summer landscapes and marine subjects, and worked as a draughtsman, watercolourist and printmaker. His art deliberately engages with seventeenth-century Dutch landscape traditions: Hobbema and Cuyp were important models, while his crowded ice scenes recall the older tradition of Dutch winter painting associated with Hendrick Avercamp and Isaac van Ostade. Yet his compositions are generally more orderly and clearly structured, with carefully distributed figures, low horizons and broad, luminous skies. His restrained tonal colour and precise drawing give the landscapes a crisp, observational character.
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