Hendrik Willem Mesdag

Dutch painter (1831–1915)

Hendrik Willem Mesdag (23 February 1831 – 10 July 1915) was a Dutch marine painter and important artist of the Hague School. seascapes and views of the beach at Scheveningen with fishing boats. In The Hague he painted the famous Panorama Mesdag with the support of his wife Sientje Mesdag van Houten and some other young artists.

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Alternative Names: H. W. Mesdag • Henrik Willem Mesdag • Hendrik Mesdag • Hendrick Willem Mezdag • Henrik William Mesdag • h.w. mesdag • Hendrik Wilhelm Mesdag • Henrick Willem Mesdag • Mesdag • henrik willem mesdag • mesdag h.w. • mesdag hendrik willem • W. Mesdag • Hendrik Willem Mesdag (1831–1915) • Mesdag, H.W. (Hendrik Willem) • Mesdag, Hendrik Willem, 1831–1915

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..the art-reviews on my work in the French and English magazines.. ..[are] enough to claim that I already have reached a prominent position among today's marine painters. I would also like to take this fact into consideration when determining my prices. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)

And you know, if my wife haven't said some forty years ago: do it, let's go to Brussels to study painting, [with a. o. Willem Roelofs ], then I probably would never have left my business [in banking]. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)

..at home [in Brussels, 1869] I was messing around all winter long with a painting; it was a coast, but painted so primitive. Then I said: you must see the sea in front of you, every day, you have to live with it, otherwise it doesn't work. Then we went to The Hague. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)