HERMANUS KOEKKOEK SNR (1815-1882)

Oil on panel

Dated 1860 and inscribed verso

13.50 inch wide   9.00 inch high

34.29 cm wide  22.86 cm high

20.00inch framed width   15.50inch framed height

50.80 cm framed width  39.37 cm framed height

The marine artist Hermanus Koekkoek Snr was the youngest and most famous of the four brothers who founded the Koekkoek dynasty of painters. He was the father of Hermanus Jnr and Willem, who also became highly successful artists. In fact, the Koekkoeks were regarded as among the most important Dutch artists of their time.

Hermanus Snr worked in Amsterdam from 1832 to 1858. He then moved to Nieuwer-Amstel, only returning to Amsterdam in 1873. He became a member of the Royal Academy in Amsterdam in 1840 and the following year a member of the Rotterdam Society. He exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1876, where his work was greatly admired.

Hermanus Koekkoek’s paintings were, in the main, depictions of the Dutch coast, recording activity in the many harbours and inlets. He was especially known for his beautiful and atmospheric skies, and the painstaking attention to detail that only an artist with the utmost technical skill can achieve.

The work of Koekkoek is represented in a large number of museums, including Glasgow City Art Gallery, Kelvingrove; the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; the Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield; the Rijksmuseums at Enkhuizen, Groningen, and Leeuwarden; and the Mauritshuis, The Hague.

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