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Panoramic landscape with the artist B. C. Koekkoek sketching, inspired on the surroundings of Beek near Nijmegen, oil on canvas, 49, 5x72, 6 cm, signed 'BC Koekkoek f' (lower left), Provenance: -With Alex Fraser Galleries, Vancouver. -Auction, New York, Sotheby's, 6 June 1986, lot 159. -Private collection. Painted circa 1826. Barend Cornelis Koekkoek, in his time also known as ‘De prins der landschapschilders' is considered one of the most important Dutch romantic landscape painters. The fundamentals of painting were taught to him by his father, the marine painter Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek (1778-1851). At the same time, the young Koekkoek attended lessons at the Middelburg Academy. From 1822 to 1825, B. C. Koekkoek continued his training at the academy in Amsterdam. His extraordinary artistic talent and inspiration made him a highly successful and renowned landscape painter. This painting belongs to a small group of works that B. C. Koekkoek created during his first stay in Beek near Nijmegen in 1826. What is particularly noteworthy is that Koekkoek has also depicted himself as a landscape painter within this composition. As viewers, we see B. C. Koekkoek from behind, wearing a beret, at work on a landscape study. Such drawn landscape studies were sometimes used in his studio as inspiration for oil paintings. The collection of the Rijksprentenkabinet includes a drawn self-portrait of B. C. Koekkoek, likely created in 1825 shortly after his time at the Amsterdam Academy, in which he wears a similar beret (inv. no. RP-T-1907-15). The present painting has been personally examined and authenticated by Drs Guido de Werd. It is recorded and will be included in his new catalogue raisonné of B. C. Koekkoek (1803-1862), inv. no. BCK(26)50.