Louis Bernard Coclers (1740 in Maastricht or

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– 20 April 1817 in Liège) was a Southern Netherlandish portrait painter and engraver who worked mainly in Liège, Maastricht, Leiden and Amsterdam.

Life

Louis Bernard Coclers was born in Liège or Maastricht in 1740. He was instructed by his father,

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. He spent three years in Italy, and after his return he settled in Maastricht, later in

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, 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,

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, 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.

Works

Paintings

* Portrait of Jan Bernd Bicker, 1776 ( Amsterdam Museum) * Mother and child, 1794 ( Rijksmuseum Amsterdam) * Two portraits of men in harnesses (

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) *Two portraits of Jacob Hendrik van Suchtelen (Private Collection)

Engravings

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'', after

Frans Hals Frans Hals the Elder (, , ; – 26 August 1666) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, chiefly of individual and group portraits and of genre works, who lived and worked in Haarlem. Hals played an important role in the evolution of 17th-century group ...

(Rijksmuseum) *''Mother teaching her son'' (Rijksmuseum) *''Reading man'' (Rijksmuseum) *''Old woman preparing beans'', 1780 (Rijksmuseum) *Double-portrait

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and

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, ca. 1805 (Rijksmuseum) File:Coclers, L B, Moeder met kind, 1794 (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam).jpg, Mother and child File:Jan Bernd Bicker.jpg, Portrait Jan Bernd Bicker File:Louis Bernhard Coclers Stich nach Malle Babbe.jpg, Engraving

File:Coclers, L B, Oude vrouw boontjes doppend (1780, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam).jpg, Old woman preparing beans File:Coclers, L B, Double portrait Napoleon and Pope Pius VII (ca1805, Rijksmuseum).jpg, Double portrait Napoleon and Pope Pius VII File:Portrait of Jakob Hendrich van Suchleten.jpg, Jakob Hendrich van Suchleten

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Coclers, Louis Bernard 1740 births 1817 deaths Artists from Maastricht 18th-century Dutch painters 18th-century Dutch male artists Dutch male painters 19th-century Dutch painters 19th-century Dutch male artists