Willem Koekkoek

Willem also received training as an architect, but practiced that profession for only a short time.

[1] From 1865 to 1894, he held annual showings at the Royal Academy of Art and the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam.

[1] His brother, Hermanus, had moved to London and opened an art dealership in 1869, which made his works, and those of the entire family, popular in England.

They had two sons who became artists, Marinus Adrianus, known as "The Younger", who became an illustrator, and Hermanus Willem, who specialized in military subjects.

He stopped exhibiting, and painted little, after 1894, due to ill health, and died the following year, shortly after turning fifty-six.