Benedictus Nicolaus Wichmann created the Wintry Landscape painting in 1815. He depicted country houses near a frozen river and tiny people walking with dogs. The characters are slowly walking on ice or are busy with different things on a snowy shore.

The author used various shades of grey colour to subordinate the picture to a single tone. Dimmed colours turned out to be of the same brightness. Researchers failed to find out which concrete vicinity was pictured by Wichmann. It is possible to state only that he reflected a typical European view of his time.

In Wintry Landscape Wichmann styled himself after the Dutch painters of the 17th century. The landscapes of Holland of that epoch are considered to be great achievements of art. They reflect not the nature in general, but exactly the Dutch terrain, which can be also recognized in the 21st century, i.e. numerous rivers and canals, windmills, sand dunes and country houses. A considerable place in the compositions was given to the skies of grey, silver shades.

Dutch realism was the innovation of that time. The rest of the European pictural art of the 17th century focused mainly on the rules of classicism, which required bringing image to some ideal. Holland was following its own path. French researcher Eugene Fromentin said that the Dutch landscape of the 17th century was the decisive refusal of the ideal norm, of a wide universal outreach; it asserted an appeal to a separate, single motive of a real, everyday nature, as if seen by an ordinary person in a natural life situation. 

Very little is known about artist Benedictus Nicolaus Wichmann. There is almost no mentioning of his works in open sources, which is why it is not possible to say if the Wintry Landscape painting is typical for his works of art in general or not. In a Swedish reference book about artists it is said that Wichmann was born in Germany in 1785, but most of this life he spent in Stockholm, Sweden. He often created portraits and cooperated with the Royal Court. The artist died in 1859.