Hermanus Koekkoek I Lot n° 36

Hermanus Koekkoek I (Middelburg 1815 - Haarlem 1882) Near Flushing Signed lower left Oil on canvas, 36.9 x 58.9 cm Provenance: Private collection, the Netherlands Note: Hermanus Koekkoek, sometimes referred to as The Elder, was primarily a painter of marines, river landscapes, and coastal scenes. He was a pupil of his father, Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek (1778-1851), like his brother, Barend Cornelis Koekkoek (1803-1862), and followed in the tradition of his famous family of painters. The Koekkoek family is one of the most celebrated artistic families in the history of Dutch 19th-century painting. Hermanus Koekkoek was born in Middelburg as the youngest of four sons. He got his first painting lessons from his father, who specialised in marine art. In 1826, the family moved to the Zuiderzee village of Durgerdam, and in 1833, Hermanus Koekkoek went to Amsterdam. Here, he enrolled at the Rijksakademie and established himself as a freelance artist. Like his father, he mostly painted maritime subjects while tra