Johannes Cornelis Haccou

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Self-portrait from 1837
Winter scene

Johannes Cornelis Haccou (born April 18, 1798 in Middelburg , † January 21, 1839 in London ) was a Dutch painter.

Life and works

Haccou was a son of Johannes Haccou and his wife Cornelia, b. Verberkmoes. He was baptized on May 3, 1798.

He was trained at the Middelburg Drawing Academy and was a student of Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek . After traveling to France, Germany and Switzerland, he moved to London. In 1836 he exhibited there at the Royal Academy of Arts .

Haccou's preferred subjects included wintry and moonlight landscapes as well as nautical motifs. One of his landscapes became the property of the National Museum in Lisbon . The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has had a self-portrait by Haccou from 1837 since 1940.

Haccou had an older brother named Lodewijk Gilles (born November 26, 1792), who also learned from Koekkoek and became a painter and created maritime works with sailing ships. Jacobus Cornelis Gaal was one of Haccou's disciples .

literature

Web links

Commons : Johannes Cornelis Haccou  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short biography on metzemaekers.com
  2. ↑ Self-portrait from 1837 on rijksmuseum.nl
  3. ↑ [Haccou] Lodewijk Gilles . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 405 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ). - in the brother's entry
personal data
SURNAME Haccou, Johannes Cornelis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haccou, Jan Cornelis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH Middelburg
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1839
Place of death London