Willem Roelofs Willem Roelofs (March 101822, Amsterdam - May 121897, Berchem) was a Dutch painter, water-colourist, etcher, lithographer and draughtsman. Roelofs was one of the forerunners of the Dutch Revival art, after the Romantic Classicism of the beginning of the 19th century, which led to the formation of The Hague school. Willem_Roelofs