Joseph Antonio Hekking (1830-1903) Seaside Landscape, 19th Century

JOSEPF ANTONIO HEKKING (1830-1903) “Seaside Landscape” Oil on canvas signed lower left. Napoleon III style Barbizon style canal frame. Dimensions: View: height 35.3 cm x length 58.2 cm. Frame: height 46 cm x length 69 cm. Joseph Antonio Hekking (1830-1903): Known for his rustic landscapes and seascapes, Joseph Antonio Hekking was a talented artist who worked in the second half of the 19th century. Born in the Netherlands, Hekking immigrated to the United States in his youth and settled in Cherry Valley, New York, with his family. He fought in the Union Army during the Civil War and left for Paris in the 1860s to study with the leading painters of the time. Upon his return, he created scenic mountain views and pastoral forest scenes of New York, Connecticut, Adirondacks, White Mountains, and the Jersey Shore in the realistic Hudson River School style. His detailed and naturalistic work has drawn prominent collectors and critics, and Hekking has exhibited at the National Academy of Design, the Detroit Art Association and Art Museum, the Michigan State Fair, the Cosmopolitan Art Association, the Utica Art Association, at the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy. , the Crystal Palace in New York (1853) and the Chicago Industrial Exposition (1876). Today, his work is presented to the New York Historical Society and the Detroit Institute of Arts. Hekking is listed in National Academy exhibit records, Penn. Academy of F.A. and the Groce & Wallace N.Y. Historical Society as one of the first American painters. He is considered an important and relevant American landscape painter who was intimately linked to the Hudson River School.