Ion Andreescu

Ion Andreescu (1850–1882) was a Romanian post-Barbizon landscape painter whose brief career produced some of the most poetic Romanian landscape painting of the nineteenth century. Trained in Bucharest and at Barbizon, where he met Grigorescu and absorbed the Barbizon manner, Andreescu painted Romanian villages, oak forests, and rural fields with a quiet intensity that anticipated Impressionism. He died of tuberculosis aged thirty-two.

Andreescu painted with sober earth-tone palettes, broken Barbizon touch, and unsentimental observation of Romanian rural light. His tree studies and forest interiors are particularly admired.

Andreescu, alongside Grigorescu, founded the modern Romanian landscape tradition and produced its most poetically observed early masterpieces.