Alexander Hugo Bakker Korff (1824 - 1882)

Alexander Hugo Bakker Korff

Alexander Hugo Bakker Korff was a 19th-century Dutch genre painter. He was a pupil of the painters Cornelis Kruseman and Huib van Hove. He was trained in the 1840s at the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten in the Hague and the Koninklijke Academie. He became known for his "Bakker Korffjes" – genre pieces of ladies in caps in interiors, that he started painting in 1856 while he was living in Oegstgeest with his sisters as models. In 1870 he was awarded the title ridder in de Leopoldsorde after his works were presented at an exhibition in Brussels in 1869.

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