Kalme zee
Hendrik Willem Mesdag
1860 - 1900
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
3.2; 97.5; 123.4; 8
About this artwork
signature: ‘HW Mesdag’
About the Artist
Hendrik Willem Mesdag · 1831–1915
Mesdag forfeited a lucrative career in banking to become of a painter. He and his wife, Sina van Houten, moved to Brussels in 1866 and received training from the painter Willem Roelofs and Mesdag's cousin, Lawrence Alma Tadema. After only a few years, Mesdag decided to dedicate his artistic career to painting the sea and shoreline. In 1869, he and his wife moved to the Hague, where he sketched the...