Johan Barthold Jongkind was born in Lattrop in the Netherlands and studied at the Academy of Arts in The Hague and later under the landscape Master Andreas Schelfhout in 1837. Moved to Paris in 1846 and became acquainted with many painters especially of the Barbizon School. First exhibition in 1848 at the Paris Salon winning a medal there in 1852. Returns to Holland and lives in Rotterdam (1855-60) concentrating on scenes of Dutch landscape. Returned permanently to Paris in 1860 and takes up etching initially offered for sale by the printer Auguste Delatre, later advertised and issued by Cadart in various publications. Dies in Grenoble and buried at La Cote-Saint-Andre, 1891.