Middelburg - Kleve: Sailboats on the Shore

(1803 Middelburg - 1862 Cleves) Sailboats off the coast, a finely drawn landscape enlivened in the foreground by a sailboat on the shore and one in the distance being loaded directly. The artist, who studied at the Amsterdam Art Academy, traveled to Cleves in 1834, where he founded his own academy in 1841, from which the Cleves Romantic art emerged. Koekkoek repeatedly received honors starting in 1829 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 (cutout in mat).