Dutch landscape painter and printmaker Théophile de Bock studied under the renowned landscape painter Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch, a member of The Hague School of painting. De Bock was also encouraged by another influential member of The Hague School, Jacob Maris, on whom he would later publish a book. De Bock’s interest in the work of Jean-François Millet, Théodore Rousseau, and Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot led him to spend 1878–80 and 1904 at Barbizon in the Forest of Fontainebleau. On his return to Holland, he settled in The Hague and made frequent expeditions to the Drenthe heaths and Gelderland. Today de Bock’s work is also found in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, Netherlands; the Tate Britain in London; and the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa.

De Bock’s work was included in the inaugural exhibition of the Munich Secession in 1893 and in subsequent exhibitions (1894, 1895, and 1896). He was a Corresponding Member of the Secession from 1894 until his death in 1904.

Rocky Landscape with Birches is on view in the exhibition Tête-à-tête through January 8, 2012.