Dutch painter. He was the son of Johannes Reekers the Elder (1790-1858), a painter specialising in flower and fruit pieces in addition to genre scenes and portraits. His father was his first tutor before he subsequently studied under the still-life painter Georgius van Os. Van Os, whose own style owed much to the work of the earlier Dutch master Jan van Huysum, was to exert a strong influence upon Hendrik Reekers. From 1830 until 1834, Reekers studied at the Stadstekenschool (School of Drawing), Haarlem, where he himself became a teacher in 1837. Although he worked in Haarlem for most of his career, during the winters of 1841 up until about 1846 he visited Brussels, where the art dealer C. J. Nieuwenhuys used to sell many of his works. He also travelled to Paris and Versailles and may well have visited England, where in 1847 he showed one of his fruit pieces at the British Institution, London. Reekers also exhibited elsewhere including The Hague and Amsterdam, from as early as 1832, when he was only sixteen, up until 1852. Amongst many accolades he won a silver medal when he showed one of his still-lifes at The Hague in 1841 and two years later became a member of the Academie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. During the early 1840s Reekers started to paint still-lifes on larger sized panels and canvasses. Reekers died on 15th May 1854 leaving a legacy that lived on in the work of his pupils, counting amongst them his brother Johannes Reekers the Younger (1824-1895) as well as Hendrik Jan Hein (1822-1866) and Jan Striening (1827-1903). //