Sunset at Scheveningen: A Fleet of Fishing Vessels at Anchor
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 95.89 x 127 cm (37 3/4 x 50 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CF
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Paul Mellon Fund and the Frank Anderson Trapp Fund
Accession Number
2012.48.1
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...