Hendrik Kobell

Hendrik Kobell (13 September 1751 – 3 August 1779) was an 18th-century landscape and marine painter, etcher, draftsman and watercolorist from the Northern Netherlands.

The younger Kobell was finally able to take a journey in one when his father arranged some business he could attend to in London in 1779.

[1] He studied for two years under Jacob de Vos and Cornelis Ploos van Amstel with such success that he was elected a member of the Stadstekenacademie (Amsterdam drawing academy).

[1] He travelled to Paris in 1772 and in 1772 settled in Rotterdam, where he helped set up a similar drawing academy; Genootschap Hierdoor tot Hooger.

[1] He was the father and teacher of the painter Jan Kobell II (1778–1814), and his other pupils were Carel Frederik Bendorp, and Gerrit van der Pals.

The Shipwreck (1775)
Ships and boats along the coast in the Dortse Kil , c. 1772/73
HMS Queen at the King's Dock Woolwich in 1771