Hendrik Willem Mesdag
Hendrik Willem Mesdag (born February 23, 1831 in Groningen , † July 10, 1915 in The Hague ) was a Dutch marine painter .
Hendrik Willem Mesdag was initially a stockbroker by profession. In 1856 he married Sientje van Houten , with whom he had a son. After the death of their father-in-law, the couple turned to painting, and he became a student of Willem Roelofs (an important landscape painter ) in Brussels . From 1869 the family lived in The Hague, where he began to paint sea views in a realistic style - he can be attributed to the Hague School .
His most famous work is the Panorama Mesdag , which he completed in 1881 with the participation of various family members (brother, wife and sister-in-law). This panorama was restored in 1975. It shows Scheveningen , a former fishing village, now a beach and hotel district of The Hague. Another work from the 1890s is the Seascape Return of the Fishermen .
Mesdag was the cousin of Lawrence Alma-Tadema . His grave is in the Dutch cemetery Oud Eik en Duinen in The Hague .
See also
Web links
- Literature by and about Hendrik Willem Mesdag in the catalog of the German National Library
- The Mesdag Panorama
- The Mesdag Collection (Dutch, English)
- Website of the International Panorama Council IPC
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hanna Klarenbeek: Houten, Sientje van . In: Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland . January 13, 2014 ( online via resources.huygens.knaw.nl ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mesdag, Hendrik Willem |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch marine painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 23, 1831 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Groningen |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 10, 1915 |
| Place of death | The hague |