I have rented a room in Scheveningen to make studies from nature. It is a room with view on the sea; I hope to make there beautiful things, and to ke… - Hendrik Willem Mesdag

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I have rented a room in Scheveningen to make studies from nature. It is a room with view on the sea; I hope to make there beautiful things, and to keep moving forward. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)

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About Hendrik Willem Mesdag

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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That splendid, head, in which everything is said that can be said; color, line, tone, expression; the slightly advanced head, with the soft, almost human eyes, I never enter my studio in the morning without my eye falling upon this creature and wishing it 'Good Morning'.

..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)

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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)

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