Johan Barthold Jongkind was born in 1819 in the village of Lattrop and spends its youth Vlaardingen, a famous fishing town in the southern part of Holland. In 1837 he starts taking drawing and painting classes at the Tékenschool in The Hague under the tutelage of Andreas Schelfhout, the famous romantic landscape painter. Schelfhout teaches him to reflect landscapes in the typical Dutch tradition of Romanticism.His talent does not remain unnoticed. In 1843, he gets a scholarship granted by King Willem II for continuing his study, and in 1845 he receives a grant of the Prince of Orange. A year later Jongkind leaves for Paris, where he does not continue to work in the romantic manner of Schelfhout and Isabey, but develops his own style, which finds more connection with the renewing French artists, such as the School of Barbizon and the impressionists. And instead of the Dutch landscapes, in Paris he is a painter of the French city scene.The style of Jongkind develops by the years. In the beginning romantic – the tracks of Schelfhout are recognised well – to a free, loose style. This development becomes clear in his drawings. As the drawings, which form the basis of his paintings, becomes looser, his oil paintings also evolve. Nature is important to Jongkind and he turns out to be a true realistic.