Lot Essay
Hoogers, a specialist in landscapes, was the first artist to be awarded the Gold Medal for the best drawn Dutch landscape in 1801 at Felix Meritis in Amsterdam. Comparable drawings by this Nijmegen artist in the Rijksprentenkabinet, Amsterdam, and in the Municipal Archives of Amsterdam, are published by J. de Jong, Hendrik Hoogers, Patriot en Kunstenaar 1747-1814, Zaltbommel, 1969.