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Hendrik Voogd (1768–1839) was a Dutch painter and printmaker who spent his active life in Italy. He was known as the "Dutch Claude", because some of his landscape paintings resembled those of the French painter Claude Lorrain, whose landscapes were often bathed in golden light.
This picture is an 1807 oil-on-canvas painting by Voogd, entitled Italian Landscape with Umbrella Pines, depicting the gardens of the Villa Borghese in Rome in the late afternoon. People can be seen strolling amongst the trees, which stand out sharply against the sky and cast long shadows across the lawns. In the foreground, an artist is shown at work beside a fallen tree. The painting is now in the collection of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.Painting credit: Hendrik Voogd