Middelburg - Cleves: 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 one in the background that is loading directly. The artist, who studied at the Amsterdam Art Academy, moved to Kleve in 1834, where he founded his own academy in 1841, from which Kleve Romantic art emerged. Koekkoek received honors repeatedly from 1829 onward and is considered one of the most important and successful landscape painters of the 19th century with international fame. Pencil on paper. L. and signed; 23.5 cm x 28.5 cm (cut in mat).