Willem Koekkoek

Mrs I.D. Brookland;

By whose Estate sold ('The Property of the Estate of Mrs I.D. Brookland'), London, Sotheby’s , 19 April 1978, lot 15;

With Richard Green Fine Paintings, London;

From whom acquired by a private collector, USA.

Dutch Romantic Paintings, exh. cat., London 1979, no. 44, reproduced in colour.

London, Richard Green Fine Paintings, Dutch Romantic Paintings, 1979, no. 44.

Willem Koekkoek was the son of the marine artist Hermanus Koekkoek Snr (1815–1882) and a member of one of the best known and most highly regarded families of realist painters in nineteenth century Holland. This canal scene pays homage to the Golden Age of painting while imparting a contemporary sensibility, which found a successful market among the affluent middle class in the Netherlands and Great Britain, particularly London, where he moved in 1888.