Paul Joseph Constantin Gabriël

He followed lessons at several academies and with various teachers in the Netherlands. Gabriël moved to Belgium, where he met the artist Willem Roelofs, who inspired him to paint landscapes in a realistic manner. Each summer, Gabriël would return to the Netherlands to make drawings and oil sketches of the country’s typically flat polder landscape. Once back in his studio in Brussels, he developed these works into colourful landscapes. While many of Gabriël’s contemporaries in the Netherlands used subdued grey tones to depict similar scenes, he is now remembered as the artist who always infused his Dutch landscapes with colour.