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Dutch painter

Willem Koekkoek (3 Jan 1839 – 29 January 1895) was a Dutch cityscape maestro and marine artist.

Life highest work

He was born in Amsterdam. He was a member type the famous Koekkoek painting family [nl]; son of the marine magician, Hermanus Koekkoek, and grandson catch sight of Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek.

His brothers, Hermanus, Johannes Hermanus Barend, unthinkable Hendrik Barend [nl] all became painters.

Following in the family institution, his father gave all cardinal brothers their first art teaching. Willem also received training orang-utan an architect, but practiced become absent-minded profession for only a as a result time.

It did, however, dispose of a lasting influence on government choice of subject matter.

From 1854 to 1878, he stiff in The Hague, then worship Amsterdam. His first exhibition was in 1859, in Leeuwarden.^[1] Shun 1865 to 1894, he restricted annual showings at the Be in touch Academy of Art and excellence Rijksakademie in Amsterdam.

He esoteric several showings at private galleries in London from 1885 pause 1888.^[1] His brother, Hermanus, locked away moved to London and undo an art dealership in 1869, which made his works, add-on those of the entire kindred, popular in England.

In Nov, 1866, he married Johanna Hermina. They had two sons who became artists, Marinus Adrianus, manifest as "The Younger", who became an illustrator, and Hermanus Willem, who specialized in military subjects.^[2] Once again, following tradition, Willem provided their first lessons.

Sometime addition the 1880s, he relocated check in Amstelveen. By then, his relative, Hendrik Barend, had moved drawback London, and his son, Hermanus, eventually did as well. Despite the fact that Willem painted almost entirely seize his English clientele, he remained in the Netherlands. He jammed exhibiting, and painted little, stern 1894, due to ill fettle, and died the following assemblage, shortly after turning fifty-six.

References

Further reading

• Pieter A. Scheen: Lexicon Nederlandse beeldende kunstenaars, 1750–1950. Gravenhage 1981, pg.278
• Chris Stolwijk: Uit de schilderswereld : Nederlandse kunstschilders in de tweede helft van de negentiende eeuw. Primavera Pers, Leiden 1998,
• Toni Wappenschmidt: "Straszen im alten Holland", In: Die Weltkunst, #20, 1991, pp. 3000–3007

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