Alexander Hugo Bakker Korff

Jan Hendrik van Rossum du Chattel, Dirk Leonardus Kooreman and Elias Stark are recorded as having studied under Alexander Hugo Bakker Korff. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait and genre. Places of work recorded in the authority are Marken. Works named in the authority record are Under the Palms, Two Ladies at their Sewing and The Waffle Maker. Work by Alexander Hugo Bakker Korff is recorded in the collections of Teylers Museum, Centraal Museum, Fries Museum, Dordrechts Museum and Museum De Lakenhal.

• Illustration — 'Onder de palmen', Under the palms. According to the RKD he was a pupil of the painters Cornelis Kruseman and Huib van Hove who became known for his "Bakker Korffjes" - genre pieces of ladies in caps in interiors, that he started painting in 1856 while he was living in Oegstgeest with his sisters as models. He was trained in the 1840s at the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten in the Hague and the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerp, where he followed lessons by Nicolaes de Keyser, among others. In 1870 he was awarded the title ridder in de Leopoldsorde after his works were presented at an exhibition in Brussels in 1869, and he was a member of the Pulchri studio who later became board member of the Leids Schilder- en Tekengenootschap Ars Aemula Naturae, an artist collective that dates back to 1799. His pupils were Dirk Leonardus Kooreman, Jan Hendrik van Rossum du Chattel, Elias Stark, Jan Jacob Zuidema Broos, and Mathilde Tonnet.

Alexander Hugo Bakker Korff is recorded as painter, draftsperson and watercolorist.