Stephen Robert Koekkoek (1887 - 1934) Netherlands
Oil on Board
Measure 8 3/4"in H x 6"in W and 17 1/2"in H x 15"in W x 2 1/2"in D with frame

Known for: Post-impressionist and abstract painting, sailing ships, seascape, figurative
Biography: Stephen Robert Koekkoek (15 October 1887, London - 20 December 1934, Santiago) was an English-born painter of Dutch descent who worked in the Postimpressionist style. He was part of the Koekkoek family of painters. His father was the landscape painter Hermanus Koekkoek the Younger, who had recently moved to London to establish an art gallery. Stephen often travelled with him to the Netherlands, where he worked with other members of the family; especially his uncle, Jan Koekkoek, who strongly influenced his brush style. He also spent a short time in Canada. In 1909, after his father died, he moved to South America and went to Bolivia, where he briefly attempted to become a mining entrepreneur. He continued on to Valparaíso where he taught English. Finally, he settled in Mendoza, Argentina, where he married the sister of painter Roberto Azzoni (1899-1989) and had a son. The marriage did not last very long, however, and he moved again; to Buenos Aires, where he shared an apartment with an aspiring poet named Jorge Uribe Escobar (1886-1919) and gained a reputation for eccentricity. After 1926, he was often hospitalized in psychiatric institutions. While there, he got permission to continue painting and many of his works were bought by his doctors. He also proclaimed himself to be Napoleon, but that was probably intended as a joke. In 1933, he moved to Rosario, then on to Santiago. He died in 1934, at the age of forty-seven, in a hotel room, from an overdose of alcohol and drugs. It is not clear if this was accidental or a case of suicide. His friend, President Arturo Alessandri Palma, arranged for his burial. A major retrospective of his work was held in Córdoba in 2004.

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