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Barend Cornelis Koekkoek, born on 11 October 1803 in Middelburg, was a renowned Dutch painter, lithographer and landscape painter, considered one of the most important of his generation.
He comes from a family of artists, his father Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek, a rather successful painter of marine scenes, gave him the first notions of fine arts and painting. His brothers, Hermanus Koekkoek and Marinus Adrianus Koekkoek, were also famous artists like him.
In 1817, at a very young age, he was admitted to the Middelburg Drawing Academy and in 1822 he moved to Amsterdam to study at the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, where, thanks to his talent, he was considered one of the founders of the Dutch Romantic movement .
He received numerous awards, including a gold medal for a painting of one of his summer landscapes, and had among his clients some of the most famous people of the time, including the King of Prussia, Frederick William IV, the King of the Netherlands, William II, and Tsar Alexander II.
Koekkoek earned the nickname "Prince of Landscape Painting" due to his mastery and talent in depicting landscapes, often portrayed in some of his most famous old master paintings.
In 1841 he founded the Zeichen Collegium in Kleve at the request of the students, a drawing school of which he was director until his death, which occurred in Kleve on 5 April 1862. Read the full biography

Barend Cornelis Koekkoek, born on 11 October 1803 in Middelburg, was a renowned Dutch painter, lithographer and landscape painter, considered one of the most important of his generation.
He comes from a family of artists, his father Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek, a rather successful painter of marine scenes, gave him the first notions of fine arts and painting. His brothers, Hermanus Koekkoek and Marinus Adrianus Koekkoek, were also famous artists like him.
In 1817, at a very young age, he was admitted to the Middelburg Drawing Academy and in 1822 he moved to Amsterdam to study at the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, where, thanks to his talent, he was considered one of the founders of the Dutch Romantic movement .
He received numerous awards, including a gold medal for a painting of one of his summer landscapes, and had among his clients some of the most famous people of the time, including the King of Prussia, Frederick William IV, the King of the Netherlands, William II, and Tsar Alexander II.
Koekkoek earned the nickname "Prince of Landscape Painting" due to his mastery and talent in depicting landscapes, often portrayed in some of his most famous old master paintings.
In 1841 he founded the Zeichen Collegium in Kleve at the request of the students, a drawing school of which he was director until his death, which occurred in Kleve on 5 April 1862.