The pseudonym for J. van Couver is Hermanus Koekkoek the Younger (Amsterdam, December 8, 1836 - London, May 1909. He was a Dutch painter, best known for his seascapes.

Hermanus Koekkoek de Jonge was part of the well-known Koekkoek painter family. He was the grandson of Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek, nephew of the well-known landscape painter Barend Cornelis Koekkoek and son of his brother Hermanus Koekkoek the Elder (1815-1887). His son Stephen Robert Koekkoek (1887-1934) also chose painting.

Hermanus Koekkoek de Jonge, like his brothers Willem, Johannes Hermanus Barend and Barend Hendrik, was educated by his father, who had just settled in Amsterdam at the time. In the 1860s he traveled regularly to London, settling there permanently in 1869. He successfully ran an art dealership there and, in addition to his own work, also sold many paintings by his family members. In particular, the great popularity of his uncle Barend Cornelis in England was largely due to him.

As a painter, he mainly focused on sea, river and beach scenes, in the romantic-realistic style that also characterized the work of most of his relatives. He preferred scenes in which ships were busy trying to keep course on the turbulent waves. His later work is less romantic and clearly shows influences from the Hague School. In his London period he often worked under the pseudonyms Jan van Couver and Louis van Straaten.

Signature: bottom left

Work size: 34 x 48 cm 

Provenance: from a Dutch private collection

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