Arnold Hendrik Koning, better known as Nol Koning, was born on 2 April 1860 in Winschoten. He grew up in a time when Dutch painting was undergoing a transition from romanticism to realism, and he would become one of the artists who upheld and further developed the principles of the Hague School.

Koning studied at the Minerva Academy in Groningen, where he refined his talent for painting. He found inspiration in the painters of the Hague School, who focused on capturing Dutch nature in subtle colour nuances and atmospheric light. Their influence would be lasting in his work, in which he managed to depict the landscape in all its tranquil splendour with a sense of atmosphere and technique.

Although Koning was not as well-known as some of his contemporaries, he had a keen eye for the beauty of the everyday. His paintings often show Dutch polders, farms and water features, where the play of light and air plays a central role. He knew better than anyone how to capture the melancholy of a gray autumn day or the warm glow of a setting sun over the fields.

In his later years, Koning settled in Barneveld, where he continued to work until his death on January 20, 1945. His oeuvre is an ode to nature and the peace of the countryside, depicted with the characteristic loose touch and subdued colors of the Hague School. His work deserves to be rediscovered as an authentic voice within Dutch landscape art, in which the silence and simplicity of the landscape still speak.