According to the RKD he was the son of Johannes Reekers (1790–1858), a teacher at the Haarlemse Teekenacademie.
He became a pupil of his father and Georgius Jacobus Johannes van Os.
[1] When he came of age he gave drawing lessons himself and from 1837 began to paint.
He participated in the art exhibitions of 1839 & 1841, and won a silver medal in The Hague in 1841.
[1] Media related to Hendrik Reekers at Wikimedia Commons