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Learn moreHendrik Willem Mesdag
Fishing Boats on the Shore
Artist
Hendrik Willem Mesdag
Groningen, Netherlands, 1831 – The Hague 1915
Title
Fishing Boats on the Shore
Date
1876-1880
Materials
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
44.5 x 103.8 cm
Credits
Gift of Mrs. M. G. Williams, inv. 1962.1384
Collection
Western Art
Hendrik Willem Mesdag became internationally known as a marine painter. This canvas is one of a few similar works that shows Mesdag’s love for fishing boats, fishermen’s lives and the sea in its various shades of grey. The Mesdag residence in Brussels was a meeting place for Belgian and Dutch artists. The Mesdags collected Barbizon School paintings and other French, Dutch and Belgian works. In 1887, the couple commissioned a house in The Hague with quarters large enough to hold their assorted artwork. The site is now known as the Mesdag Collection.
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