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Barend Cornelis Koekkoek
Barend Cornelis Koekkoek was a Dutch landscape artist and lithographer.
BiographyEarly life: Barend Cornelis Koekkoek was born on 11 October , in Middelburg, Zeeland. He was the first and eldest son of Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek-born in the province of Zeeland, to Dutch parents-and Anna van Koolwijk. Aside from Koekkoek, whose father was a Dutch renowned marine painter, from whom he received his earliest tuition, Johannes and Anna's other sons were Hermanus (the elder), Johannes (the Younger) and Marinus.
Barend grew up in an artistic environment and came to be known during his lifetime as the "Prince of Landscape Painting" and was an applauded landscapist of his time and regarded as the founding father of Dutch romantic landscape painting. The recipient of endless awards and decorations, he counted among his clients King Friedrich-Wilhelm IV of Prussia, Tsar Alexander II, and King Willem II of the Netherlands.
His brothers were both successful artists, the first as a painter of marine subjects and river scenes, the second as a landscapist. In he enrolled at the Drawing Academy of Middelburg, where he studied under Abraham Krayestein. On moving to Amsterdam in , he studied for four years at the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende
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When I have to travel to meetings in the UK and have an overnight stay, I try and go to local art galleries and see what is on offer. I am often somewhat disappointed with the collections. I suppose I expect too much. It is my own fault. I should realise I am not going to find a hidden Uffizi or Prado in a provincial town as I am aware that building up an art collection is a costly affair in this day and age. So, to my great surprise and pleasure, yesterday I discovered a real gem. I was in Cheltenham for a meeting and had the afternoon free so decided to go and find their art gallery. It is called The Wilson and it has a small but wonderful collection of paintings many of which are from an era I particularly love – seventeenth and nineteenth Dutch and Flemish works of art. My blog today is all about the gallery and some of these paintings.
For a gallery to become established it obviously needs a collection of paintings and this almost always means it has to have a benefactor who has bequeathed the gallery a large number of works of art. The regency spa town of Cheltenham and The Wilson had the second Baron de Ferrieres to thank for their foreign painting collection. He died in Cheltenham in and left his large art collection to his son the third Baron, Cha
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Winter Landscape, Holland
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Title:Winter Landscape, Holland
Artist:Barend Cornelis Koekkoek (Dutch, Middelburg – Cleve)
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Medium:Oil on wood
Dimensions x 17 in. ( x cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Solicitation, Bequest past it Catharine Lorillard Wolfe,
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Inscription: Shipshape and moderate (lower left): B C Koek-Koek
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