Eelke Jelles Eelkema (8 July 1788 – 27 November 1839) was a Dutch painter of landscapes, flowers, and fruit.

The Flemish Gerardus de San, first director of the Academie Minerva, instructed Eelkema in the art of drawing.

[1] Eelkema then travelled by foot in France, Switzerland, and Italy, making sketches.

In 1823 Eelkema visited London, and later worked in a flower shop in Haarlem.

In 1830 Eelkema had translated from the French language a theoretical work by the miniaturist André Léon Larue Mansion .