Career
Jkhr. Jacob Eduard van Heemskerck van Beest was born on 28 February 1828 in Kampen in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. He was originally a marine officer until 1853, whereupon he moved to Utrecht and became a painter specialized in marines. Van Heemskerck van Beest died, at the age of 66, in The Hague on 24 December 1894.