Chronology

3 June 1819 Johan Barthold Jongkind is born in the town of Lattrop in the Overijssel province of the Netherlands near the border with Germany

1846 Moves to the Montmartre quarter of Paris, France where he studies under Eugène Isabey and Francois-Edouard Picot

1848 Paris Salon accepts his work for its exhibition, and receives acclaim from critic Charles Baudelaire and later on from 3ò4mile Zola

1855 Returns to live in Rotterdam in 1855, and remains there until 1860

1861 Rents a studio on the rue de Chevreuse in Montparnasse

1862 Meets in Normandy, in the ferme Saint-Siméon in Honfleur, with some of his artist friends, such as Alfred Sisley, Eugène Boudin, and the young Claude Monet, to all of whom Jongkind serves as a mentor

1863 Exhibits at the first Salon des Refusés

1878 Him and his companion Joséphine Fesser move to live in the small town of La Céte-Saint-André near Grenoble in the Iàre département in the southeast of France

9 February 1891 Dies in La Céte-Saint-André near Grenoble