Marinus Adrianus Koekkoek

Marinus Adrianus Koekkoek
Born	September 25, 1807 Middelburg
Died	January 28, 1868 (aged 60) Amsterdam
Nationality	Netherlands
Other names	Marinus Adrianus Koekkoek the Elder

Figures on a forest path

Marinus Adrianus Koekkoek or Marinus Adrianus Koekkoek the elder (September 25, 1807 – January 28, 1868) was a 19th-century Dutch landscape painter.

Koekkoek was born in Middelburg as the son of Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek and was the brother of Barend Cornelis and Hermanus.^[1] His was the first teacher of his son Hendrik Pieter Koekkoek, who carried on his family's traditional style of romantic landscape painting.

Koekkoek worked mostly in Hilversum and Amsterdam, where he later died.^[1]

Public Collections

• Rijksmuseum Amsterdam^[2]

References

1. Marinus Adrianus Koekkoek (I) in the RKD
2. Collection Rijksmuseum

• 2 Paintings by Marinus Adrianus Koekkoek at the Art UK site
• Marinus Adrianus Koekkoek the Elder on artnet