Hendrik Voogd (1768-1839)

• Was a Dutch painter and printmaker.
• Hendrik Voogd was born on 10 July 1768 in Amsterdam in the Dutch Republic.
• Beginning in 1783, Voogd studied at a local Academy and then later apprenticed under the wallpaper painter Jurriaan Andriessen.
• The financial aid of the Amsterdam art collector D. Versteegh enabled him to depart in 1788 for Rome to obtain further training in landscape painting.

• While in Italy, Voogd befriended many famous landscape painters, such as Nicolas-Didier Boguet, Johann Christian Reinhart and Johann Martin von Rohden.

• He remained in Italy apart from a short visit to the Netherlands in 1828.
• He never married and is not known to have had any children.
• Voogd died on 4 September 1839 in Rome in the Papal States.
• Voogd's works from his first Roman years are primarily drawings with colored wash.
• One of his major influences was Claude Lorrain.

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