Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek
Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek | |
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 Koekkoek (c. 1810) | |
| Born | August 17, 1778 |
| Died | January 9, 1851 (aged 72) |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Known for | Marine artist |
Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek (17 August 1778 — 9 January 1851) was a Dutch painter and draughtsman.
Family[]
Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek was the head of an artistic family. His sons Barend Cornelis Koekkoek, Hermanus Koekkoek (1815–1882) and Marinus Adrianus Koekkoek (1807–1868) were all successful artists; Hermanus specialized in marine art and river scenes, while Barend and Marinus were primarily landscape painters. His grandsons Johannes Hermanus Barend Koekkoek, Willem Koekkoek, and Hendrik Pieter Koekkoek also became artists.
Career[]
Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek initially trained under Thomas Gaal, working in a wallpaper factory.[1] He became primarily a marine art and genre art painter. He was active between 1793 and 1851, and worked in Middelburg, Durgerdam, Amsterdam (1833–1851), and Medemblik (1838) and Katwijk aan Zee.
Works[]
- Works
Unloading the catch
After the shipwreck, rescue (by 1851)
A in the Breakers
Ships in stormy seas by Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek, 1821
On The Beach by Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek, 1823
References[]
- ^ Bryan 1886, p. 742.
Bibliography[]
- Bryan, Michael (1886). Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers. 1st Vol. London: George Bell and Sons.
External links[]
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Quotations from Wikiquote
Texts from Wikisource
Data from Wikidata
The first and third of these images are of works by J.H.B. Koekkoek, grandson of Johannes Hermanus. The second is uncertain. Only the last is likely to be by Johannes Hermanus b. 1778.
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