Eugène Verboeckhoven Art

EUGENE VERBOECKHOVEN Belgian, 1798-1881 Barn Interior with Sheep and Chickens (1873) Oil on canvas reverse of canvas signed and dated signed lower right "E. Verboeckhoven" stock...

Oil on Board. Signed and dated in the center of the left margin. On the back are a label from an Artwork Exhibition held in Sondrio in 1966 and one from Martina Art Gallery in Turin...

Eugène Joseph Verboeckhoven, (Belgian, 1799-1881) Not Signed The Belgian painter was born at Warneton in West Flanders. He was a painter, a sculptor, an etcher, an engraver, and a lithographer of animals, animated landscapes, and portraits. Eugène Verboeckhoven...

"Sheep At Pasture" landscape painting by Eugene Verboeckhoven (Belgian, 1798-1881) Oil on panel; Signed lower left "Eug. Verboeckhoven 1862"; six...

This gorgeous little scene depicts a goat grazing in the hay covering the floor of an old barn, the worn stone walls and aged wooden beams giving a sense of the building’s history. Resting quietly in the warmth of the hay is a sheep and a young lamb on the brink of sleep. It is a nostalgic work that is incredibly fine in the execution of the details - each animal’s facial features are depicted with perfect clarity and the warm palette throughout creates a consistent mood in the scene. The lower left corner is signed in his typical script “Eugene Verboeckhoven...

A perfect early 19th century oil on panel depicting a delightful illustration of sheep and goats. Signed lower left and dated 1825. Eugen Joseph Verboeckhoven studied with his father, and became a skilful sculptor, and later a great painter. The strict disciplines of the modeler gave the painter a trueness of form. He continued the tradition of Paul Potter and Ommeganck, and if he did not equal the former, he surpassed the latter. As a sculptor and painter with a romantic turn of mind, Verboeckhoven's depictions of animals, the main feature of his works, had an international reputation in his lifetime. They were executed according to a scumbling process which made them smooth and velvety, and appear bathed in a golden light. His success was particularly marked in the USA and England, where a large number of his works are held. Verboeckhoven was a member of the academies in Belgium, Antwerp and St Petersburg. The highest distinctions were heaped on him: the Cross of the Légion d'Honneur, the Order of Leopold of Belgium, the Order of Christ...

A delightful scene of sheep at pasture with a few chickens resting amongst them in the shade of some small foliage. The bright scene is typical of Verboeckhoven (1798-1881), whose no...

A beautiful little work by the master of genre animal scenes, this romantic work of the Second Empire shows a seated rider on the road to Arnhem in the Netherlands. The horse is exq...