![Hendrik Johannes Weissenbruch - Glimpse into the House under the Artist’s Home in The Hague [1888]](http://c4.staticflickr.com/4/3873/18753217313_f87190c3da_o.jpg)
Hendrik Johannes Weissenbruch (The Hague, June 19, 1824 - The Hague, March 24, 1903) was a Dutch painter. In 1849, two years after Weissenbruch staged his first exhibition, the Teylers Museum in Haarlem acquired one of his panoramic landscapes. However, that early success did not last very long. In spite of the prestige he had earned among his colleagues, he did not achieve public acknowledgement until the late 1880s. During this intermediate period, Weissenbruch went from being a characteristic painter of Dutch Romanticism to one of the best representatives of the Hague School. His lively dune landscapes led to a series of atmospheric impressions of the Dutch polders, in which the artist paid special attention to his representation of the cloudy skies and stretches of water. These beautiful oil and watercolour landscapes were painted, almost without exception, with free and delicate brushstrokes.
[Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam - Oil on canvas, 39 x 51 cm]