Snow Landscape by Alexander Joseph Daiwaille A Beautiful Tranquil Scene

Snow Landscape

Snow Landscape c1845 by Dutch Painter Alexander Joseph Daiwaille (1818 – 1888); portrait and landscape painter.

This is a beautiful tranquil winter landscape painting of a small Dutch village situated near a frozen river with villagers on the ice, others walking along the country path and others going about their business around the village.

The scene is set with a beautiful blue sky populated with billowing white, blue, grey and reddish hued clouds; with birds flying overhead and with trees surrounding and to both sides of the village.

This is a retouched digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image.

Information Below Derived From Wikipedia.org

Alexander was the son of portrait painter Jean Augustin Daiwaille (1786 – 1850) and was born in Amsterdam the Netherlands on January 21 of 1818.

Though like his father Alexander specialized in portraiture in the early part of his career; he would eventually transition to painting landscapes of the Netherlands and Germany.

He painted scenes in Netherlands, which included Hilversum from 1833 – 1834, the Hague from 1840 – 1848; then in Germany including Kleve from 1834 – 1835 and 1840 – 1848.

He also worked with his brother-in-law Barend Cornelis Koekkoek (1803 – 1862) a Dutch Landscape Painter and Lithographer.