Hendrik Reekers
Illustration — Still life with fruit, flowers and bounty from the hunt, 1847, collection Teylers Museum Hendrik Reekers (1815 in Haarlem – 1854 in Haarlem), was a 19th-century still life painter from the Netherlands.
Also recorded as Hendrik Reeckers · Reekers
Hendrik Reekers
- Born
- 1815 · Haarlem.
- Died
- 1854 · Haarlem.
- Nationality
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Occupation
- painter
- Fields
- still life
- Known for
- Still life with fruit and flowers and poultry · Still life with flowers
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Illustration — Still life with fruit, flowers and bounty from the hunt, 1847, collection Teylers Museum Hendrik Reekers (1815 in Haarlem – 1854 in Haarlem), was a 19th-century still life painter from the Netherlands.
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Subjects and genres recorded for the work are still life. Places of work recorded in the authority are Haarlem and Brussels. Works named in the authority record are Still life with fruit, flowers and poultry and Still life with flowers. Work by Hendrik Reekers is recorded in the collections of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Teylers Museum, Villa Vauban and The Wilson.
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. 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. In 1843 he became a member of the Academie of Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. In 1847 he was allowed to exhibit at the British Institution. He is known for his still life and hunting pieces, and his pupils were Hendrik Jan Hein, his brother Johannes Reekers the younger, and Jan Striening.
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