Barend Cornelis Koekkoek

Barend Cornelis Koekkoek
Rijksmuseum, CC0

(1803–1862) holländsk landskapsmålare

Barend Cornelis Koekkoek (Netherlands, 1803–1862) is listed in the catalogue as a painter and a draughtsman. By year of birth, Barend Cornelis Koekkoek belongs to the chapter ‘Romanticism’ in this site’s history of art.

Barend Cornelis Koekkoek was born in Middelburg and died in Kleve. Barend Cornelis Koekkoek worked in Amsterdam and Kleve. Wikidata associates Barend Cornelis Koekkoek with Hague School. Barend Cornelis Koekkoek became a member of Hague School and Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. The awards include Order of the Red Eagle and Knight of the Legion of Honour. The students included Albertus Verhoesen.

The best-known works include ‘Forest Scene’, ‘Winter Landscape’, and ‘Italianate landscape’. The works belong mainly to the genre landscape painting. The catalogue has 52 works by Barend Cornelis Koekkoek with free images. The dated works span the years 1825–1858. Works by Barend Cornelis Koekkoek are held by several collections, among them Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Instituut Collectie Nederland, Art collection of the Federal Republic of Germany, and Teylers Museum.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Cornelis Kruseman, Camille Roqueplan, Hermann Stilke, Jacob Abels, and Robert Scott Lauder.