Live Auction 2795Old Master Paintings from the Collection of Jacques Goudstikker
Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek (Veere 1778-1851 Amsterdam)
Lot 18

Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek (Veere 1778-1851 Amsterdam)

Shipping in choppy sea before a rocky coast

Closed14 November 2007

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Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek (Veere 1778-1851 Amsterdam)
Shipping in choppy sea before a rocky coast
signed 'J.H. Koekkoek' (lower left)
oil on panel
40.6 x 53.2 cm.

Voskuil.
with Jacques Goudstikker, Amsterdam, by 1931.
Looted by the Nazi authorities, July 1940.
Recovered by the Allies, 1945.
in the custody of the Dutch Government.
Restituted in February 2006 to the heir of Jacques Goudstikker.

Specialist note

J.H. Koekkoek was born in Veere and went to nearby Middelburg to be trained at the local wallpaper factory. He developed into a painter of marine scenes, teaching in Middelburg. In 1826, he settled in Durgerdam, and moved to Amsterdam in 1833. He was head of an extraordinary dynasty of artists that included his sons Barend Cornelis (1803-1862), Marinus Adrianus (1807-1868), Johannes (1811-1831) and Hermanus (1815-1882), all of whom were born in Middelburg, down to his great grand sons, Hermans Willem (1867-1929) and Marinus Adrianus II (1873-1944).