View of a Dutch village with skaters on the frozen canal was executed in 1856 by Dutch portrait and landscape painter Alexander Joseph Daiwaille ( 1818 Amsterdam, Kingdom of the Netherlands - 1888 in Brussels, Kingdom of Belgium).

Alexander Joseph Daiwaille was the son of the painter Jean Augustin Daiwaille; his sister was the painter Elise Thérèse Daiwaille. Like his father, he initially specialized in portraiture, but later also painted landscapes. He traveled throughout the Netherlands and Germany to find his subjects, visiting places such as Hilversum (1833–1834), Kleve (1834–1835), Nijmegen (1835–1836), The Hague (1836–1839), and again Kleve (1840–1848). In Kleve, he worked with his brother-in-law, the landscape painter Barend Cornelis Koekkoek.  settled in Brussels in 1849, where he lived until his death in 1888.

In 1839, he was awarded the prize at the Exhibition of Living Masters. In 1847, he received a silver medal from the Felix Meritis Artists' Association (Amsterdam) for a landscape painting. He sold two of his landscapes to King William II of the Netherlands in 1848.

Literature: Thieme/BeckerVIII, 1913, 287 ;  Waller, 1938;Lexicon Nederlandse beeldende kunstenaars, 1750–1950, Scheen I, 1969; RoyalHibAcad I, 1986; Michael Bryan: Dictionary of Painters and Engravers.

Inscription: signed with monogram and dated 1856 lower right.

Technique: oil on canvas, gilt frame of later period.

Measurements: unframed w 23 3/4" x h 17 1/2" (60,5 x 44,5 cm); framed w 29 1/8" x h 23 1/4" (74 x 59 cm).

Condition: in very good condition.