Reproductions of paintings — Mesdag, Hendrik Willem — engravings

Hendrik Willem Mesdag (1831 - 1915) was a Dutch marine painter.
He was born in Groningen, the son of banker Klaas Mesdag. His father, an amateur artist, encouraged Mesdag to study art. At 35, Mesdag retired from banking to pursue a career as an artist. In Brussels he studied with Willem Roelofs, and in 1868 he moved to The Hague in order to paint the sea. In 1870 at the Paris Salon and received a gold medal for The Destroyers of the North Sea. In 1880 he received a commission for panoramas overlooking the village of Scheveningen on the North Sea coast near The Hague, "Panorama Mesdag". A year later, he completed work on a huge picture - 14 m in height and 120 m in circumference. He was a member of the art society of The Hague (Pulchri Studio), and in 1889 became its chairman.