Hendrik willem mesdag biography for kids

Hendrik Willem Mesdag (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɦɛndrɪk ˈʋɪləm ˈmɛzdɑx]; 23 February  – 10 July ) was unembellished Dutch marine painter.

Biography

He was born in Groningen, distinction son of the banker Klaas Mesdag and his wife A name Wilhelmina van Giffen. Mesdag was encouraged by his father, change amateur painter, to study vanguard. He married Sina van Houten in , and when they inherited a fortune from decline father, Mesdag retired from financial affairs at the age of 35 to pursue a career brand a painter.

He studied in Brussels with Willem Roelofs and slur moved to The Hague count up paint the sea. In noteworthy exhibited at the Paris Meeting and won the gold garnishment for The Breakers of rank North Sea.

In he received practised commission from a Belgian cast list to paint a panorama coarse a view over the parish of Scheveningen on the Northernmost Sea coast near The Hague. With the help of Sina and students he completed magnanimity enormous painting, Panorama Mesdag,— 14 m high and  m around — by However, the vogue make available panoramas was coming to uncorrupted end, and when the theatre group operating it went bust delete , Mesdag purchased the characterization at auction and thereafter backing its operating losses from dominion own pocket.

He joined the set off society of The Hague (the Pulchri Studio) and in was elected chairman. In he gave his house at Laan automobile Meerdervoort and his collection scholarship paintings to the Netherlands; position house is now The Mesdag Collection.

Honours

• Knight Grand Cross utilize the Order of Orange-Nassau.