Berg, Simon Van Den 1812 - 1891There is 1 product.

Dutch painter, printmaker and museum director. He was from a wealthy farming family and was only allowed to train as a painter when he was about 20 years old. He was initially taught by the carriage-painter Molijn (probably Fran?ois Adriaan Molijn Dzn), Jacob de Meijer and then at the Rotterdam Teeken-Akademie. Thereafter he studied for two and a half years in the studio of Pieter Gerardus van Os in The Hague, where he became especially skilled at depicting animals. Subsequently he worked in Overschie (1837), Velsen (1838), The Hague (1839) and Amsterdam (1840-42), where he became friendly with the landscape painter Christiaan Immerzeel (1808-86), whose sister he married. After this he worked in Haarlem (1843-50), Heemstede (1852), The Hague (from 1854) and finally, after 1889, in Arnhem. Van den Berg was a competent cattle and landscape painter who managed to achieve considerable fame. He obtained a gold medal in 1838 from the Felix Meritis Society and in 1839 was made a member of the Royal Academy in Amsterdam. Typical of his work are Summer Morning, Landscape with Cattle (Amsterdam, Rijksmus.), Summer Afternoon (Haarlem, Teylers Mus.) and Cattle near a Farm (1835; The Hague, Gemeentemus.).