Hendrik Voogd

Hendrik Voogd trained in Amsterdam under a maker of painted wallpaper, and might have stayed a decorator if a local art collector, D. Versteegh, had not paid for him to go to Rome in 1788 to study landscape. Voogd went, and he essentially never left. He lived in Italy for the rest of his life and died in Rome in 1839, more than 50 years later.

There he painted the countryside around the city, Tivoli, Lake Albano, the umbrella pines, in a warm golden light modelled on Claude Lorrain, the 17th-century master of the idealised landscape. The resemblance earned him his nickname, the 'Dutch Claude'. His best-known canvas, 'Italian Landscape with Umbrella Pines', hangs in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, a sunlit Roman scene by a man who had left the Netherlands behind.