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Barend Cornelis Koekkoek
Dutch Realist painter, draftsman & writer
born 1803 - died 1862
Also known as: Barend Cornelius Koekkoek.
Student of: Jean Augustin Daiwaille
(1786-1850).
Teacher of: Alexander Joseph Daiwaille
(1818-1888), Paul Joseph Constantine Gabriel
(1828-1903).
Uncle of: Alexander Joseph Daiwaille
(1818-1888).
Dutch painter, one of the most important landscape painters of his
generation. He received his first lessons from his father,
Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek
(1778-1851), and also studied at the
Tekenacademie in Middelburg. Subsequently he became a pupil
at the Amsterdam Rijksakademie under Jean
Augustin Daiwaille (1786-1850). He first participated in an
exhibition in 1820. Between 1826 and 1834 he travelled constantly,
visiting the Harz Mountains, the Rhine and the Ruhr. His first great
success came in 1829 when he won the gold medal of the Amsterdam society
Felix Meritis with Landscape with a Rainstorm Threatening (Amsterdam,
Rijksmuseum). The painting is notable for its accurate and sober study
of nature; it marked Koekkoek’s commitment to a style of landscape
divorced both from the predominantly topographical approach of the 18th
century and from the flat and decorative manner of contemporary mural
painting. |