Willem Roelofs Polder landschap with wading cows

Willem Roelofs, a painter in development

Willem Roelofs was born in Amsterdam in 1822 and spent his youth in Utrecht. In 1839, Willem Roelofs moved to The Hague to take lessons at the studio of the landscape painter Hendricus van de Sande Bakhuyzen. He subsequently undertook a study trip along the Rhine to Germany and also stayed in Oosterbeek several times, before settling in The Hague. In 1847, he was one of the co-founders of the Ha ...