Fishing Boats on the Breakers
Hendrik Willem Mesdag
1841 - 1915
Medium
brush
Dimensions
63.5; 48
About this artwork
Mr and Mrs Drucker-Fraser Bequest, Montreux
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...