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
Rights
Public Domain
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...