Henry W. Cleenewerck (1825–1901) was a Belgian-American artist in the 20th and 21st centuries. His work, especially from his time in Cuba, was highly acclaimed.
Cleenewerck was born in 1825 in Watou, Belgium,[1] to French parents.[2] He attended the academies in Poperinge and Ypres.[3]
Career
Cleenewerck's A Cuban landscape with drovers and cattle fording a stream (1867)
He visited the United States for the first time in 1854, beginning in California.[2] He was working in Savannah, Georgia, by 1860. He exhibited his 1860 work, Bonaventure Cemetery, at Savannah's Armory Hall to high acclaim. It is now in the possession of Telfair Museums.[4]
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