Everything about Hendrik Willem Mesdag totally explained
Hendrik Willem Mesdag (
23 February 1831 –
10 July 1915) was a
Dutch marine
painter.
He was born in
Groningen, the son of the banker Klaas Mesdag and his wife Johanna Wilhelmina van Giffen. Mesdag was encouraged by his father, an amateur painter, to study art. He married Sina van Houten in
1856, and when they inherited a fortune from her father, Mesdag retired from banking to pursue a career as a painter.
He studied in
Brussels with
Willem Roelofs and in
1868 moved to
The Hague to paint the sea. In
1870 he exhibited at the
Paris Salon and won the gold medal for
The Breakers of the North Sea.
In
1880 he received a commission from a Belgian company to paint a
panorama giving a view over the village of
Scheveningen on the
North Sea coast near The Hague . With the help of Sina and students he completed the enormous painting (
Panorama Mesdag)— 14 m high and 120 m around — by
1881. However, the vogue for panoramas was coming to an end, and when the company operating it went bust in
1886, Mesdag purchased the painting at auction and thereafter funding its operating losses from his own pocket.
He joined the art society of The Hague (the
Pulchri Studio) and in
1889 was elected chairman. In
1903 he gave his house at Laan van Meerdervoort and his collection of paintings to the Netherlands; the house is now the
Museum Mesdag.
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