Louis Bernard Coclers

Nicolas Henri Joseph de Fassin is recorded as having studied under Louis Bernard Coclers. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are Rome, Liège and Maastricht. Works named in the authority record are A Mother with her Child, Catharina Six (1752-1793) and Portrait of Jan Bernd Bicker (1746-1812). Work by Louis Bernard Coclers is recorded in the collections of Amsterdam Museum, Rijksmuseum, Museum Van Loon, Bonnefanten Museum and Museum De Lakenhal.

Louis Bernard Coclers was born in Liège or Maastricht in 1740. He was instructed by his father, Jean-Baptiste Coclers. He spent three years in Italy, and after his return he settled in Maastricht, later in Nijmegen, Dordrecht and Leiden (from 1769 onwards). Compromised politically, he left Holland in 1787, and went to Paris, where he remained several years. He again returned to Holland and resided in Amsterdam, where he painted portraits and engraved cabinet pictures in the manner of Frans van Mieris the Elder, Gabriël Metsu, and Godfried Schalcken, which he exhibited regularly from 1808 to 1813. He engraved 166 plates; they are signed with a cipher, or his initials. One of his paintings and many of his engravings are in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. At the end of his life, Coclers returned to Liège where he died in 1817.

• Malle Babbe, after Frans Hals (Rijksmuseum) • Mother teaching her son (Rijksmuseum) • Reading man (Rijksmuseum) • Old woman preparing beans, 1780 (Rijksmuseum) • Double-portrait Napoleon and Pope Pius VII, ca. 1805 (Rijksmuseum) • Illustration — Mother and child • Illustration — Portrait Jan Bernd Bicker • Illustration — Engraving Malle Babbe • Illustration — Old woman preparing beans • Illustration — Double portrait Napoleon and Pope Pius VII • Illustration — Jakob Hendrich van Suchleten

The authorities additionally record the headings Jean-Baptiste-Bernard Coclers, Louis-Bernard Coclers, L. Coclers, Jean Baptiste Bernard Coclers and peintre hollandais L.B. He was the child of Jean Baptiste Pierre Coclers. One child is recorded: Bernard Coclers.

Louis Bernard Coclers is recorded as printmaker, painter, watercolorist, art collector and art dealer.