Heinrich Wilhelm Schweickhardt

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Heinrich Wilhelm Schweickhardt
German, 1746-1797

Cow Grazing

Signed and dated lower right "HWSchweickhardt"

Black chalk heightened with white on blue paper,
6-1/2 x 9-1/2 in (16.5 x 24.1 cms)

	Provenance: Christie's London, July 1, 2004 Museums and Collections: The Louvre, Paris, The National Gallery, London, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London.

	German painter and draughtsman, Heinrich Wilhelm Schweickhardt, was born in Mark Brandenburg in 1746. As from 1775, Schweickhardt lived in The Hague, where he was widely sought as a portrait and landscape painter. He painted in the tradition of Cuyp and Potter. Schweickhardt died in London in 1797.