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Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek artwork • painting • previously for sale Shipwreck off the coast

Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek

Shipwreck off the coast
oil on panel 34.1 x 47.7 cm, signed l.c. and painted ca. 1810

This painting was previously for sale.

Provenance: Charles Nicholls & Son, Manchester, Groot-Brittannië; part bezit Duitsland.

Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek is considered the ancestor of the well-known Koekkoek family of painters. He received his training at the classicist-oriented Middelburg Teeken Academy and at the same time worked in Thomas Gaal's wallpaper factory. After that he specialized in painting very finely elaborated cityscapes with water, and especially seascapes. He was one of the first at the beginning of the 19th century to be inspired by the famous sea painters of the Dutch Golden Age. It can be concluded from his paintings that he knew a lot about the different types of ships that sailed the open waters of Zeeland at the time. As a romantic artist, he was also fascinated by the drama of the shipwreck. The sea, which was suitable for the most diverse forms of transport, could turn into a swirling body of water in unfavorable tide and storm. Shipwreck was always lurking. Johannes Hermanus preferred to paint them dramatically, the ship slowly sinking in the waves, watched by some victims who had managed to save themselves.


Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek | A fisherman and woman, chatting, oil on panel, 33.1 x 26.9 cm, signed l.c. and dated 1834

Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek

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A fisherman and woman, chatting

Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek | Fishermen with their catch, oil on panel, 36.4 x 30.6 cm, signed l.r. and painted ca. 1834

Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek

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Fishermen with their catch

Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek | Sailing ships entering a harbour in a heavy storm, oil on canvas, 97.2 x 123.3 cm, signed indistinctly signed l.r.

Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek

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Sailing ships entering a harbour in a heavy storm

Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek | Sailing ships off the coast of Zeeland, oil on panel, 35.6 x 48.8 cm, signed l.r.

Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek

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Sailing ships off the coast of Zeeland

Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek | Shipping off the coast, oil on canvas, 57.3 x 72.0 cm, signed l.r. and dated 1831

Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek

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Shipping off the coast

Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek | Shipwreck at the South African coast, Tsaarsbank, with the Table Mountain in the distance, oil on panel, 57.4 x 82.8 cm, signed l.r. and dated 1824 (vague)

Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek

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Shipwreck at the South African coast, Tsaarsbank, with the Table Mountain in the distance

Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek | Warships off the Zeeland coast, oil on panel, 32.1 x 40.7 cm, signed l.c.

Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek

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Warships off the Zeeland coast


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