Middelburg - Kleve: Sailing ships on the shore

(1803 Middelburg – 1862 Kleve) Sailing ships off the coast, a finely drawn landscape, enlivened in the foreground by a sailing ship on the shore and another in the background, which is being loaded directly. The artist, who studied at the Amsterdam Art Academy, went to Kleve in 1834, where he founded his own academy in 1841, from which the Kleve Romantic Art emerged. Koekkoek repeatedly received honors from 1829 onwards and is considered one of the most important and successful landscape painters of the 19th century with international renown. Pencil on paper. L. and signature; 23.5 cm x 28.5 cm (cut-out in the mat).