Barend Cornelis Koekkoek (1803 - 1862) ✽ Dutch artist

Thank you everyone for watching and for comments! ༺❀༻ All the best! Barend Cornelis Koekkoek (Dutch, Middelburg 1803–1862 Cleve) BAREND CORNELIS KOEKKOEK (1803 - 1862) One of the most celebrated Dutch landscape artists of the nineteenth century was Barend Cornelis Koekkoek. His works were typical of the period’s landscape painting, which combined “a romantic feeling for nature with a classically inspired manner,” so that “even when nature assumes dramatic form in the guise of a gathering storm, the brush is unmoved.” (Marjan van Heteren, Guido Jansen, and Ronald de Leeuw, The Poetry of Reality: Dutch Painters of the Nineteenth Century, Amsterdam: Waanders Publishers: Rijksmuseum, 2000, pg. 8) Koekkoek became a much sought after artist through his mountainous, forest and idyllic woodland scenes, as well as his majestic oak trees, gathering thunderstorms, and masterful use of light. Barend Cornelis Koekkoek was born in 1803 in Middleburg, the Netherlands in