#Collection Mesdag

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Sous les feux de la rampe

This is about a rather exceptional 19th century couple, Sientje and Hendrik Willem Mesdag. Both talented artists AND art collectors. The Mesdag Collection, worth a visit!

Le couple Mesdag, artistes et collectionneurs exceptionnels Top English summary : click here Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Brisants en mer du Nord, 1870. Médaille d’or au Salon de Paris. ” Sans lui, je ne serais certainement pas devenue peintre. Et probablement, lui ne serait pas devenu peintre sans moi.” Ces paroles sont de Sientje Mesdag, née Van Houten (1834-1909). Sa vie commence dans la ville…

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Traineeship The Art of Making Art Exbitions (Van Gogh Museum)

Creating the exhibition Dining at the artist’s table - from still life to food design at the Mesdag Collection in The Hague (26 August to 30 October 2016)

Dining at the artist’s table was developed by participants of ‘The Art of Making Art Exhibitions’. This comprehensive training programme for young creative professionals is organised by the Van Gogh Museum and covers all aspects of exhibition creation.

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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796–1875) Chalk Cliffs near Yport 1872

Oil on canvas 43 x 59.3 cm

Mesdag Collection, The Hague

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Lighthouse in Breaking Waves, Museum of the Netherlands

From 1870 the fishing village of Scheveningen grew rapidly into a modern seaside resort. Mesdag, however, rarely depicted the boulevard, or the new harbour that was built in 1904. He preferred to paint the traditional life of fishermen. This picture is an exception: a light-house, or rather a beacon. Signal lights, piers and the lighthouse were installed in Scheveningen only in the early 20th century.

http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.9079

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The Fishing Boats at Scheveningen, Hendrik Willem Mesdag, 1868-1895, Harvard Art Museums: Drawings

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Mary F. and Fannie Bartlett Collection Size: 70.2 x 47 cm (27 5/8 x 18 1/2 in.) Medium: Watercolor, charcoal and traces of gouache on off-white textured wove paper

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/298281

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1- The Municipal Gallery at the Lenbachhaus is an art museum in Munich, Germany, opened in 1929. Former home of the realistic artist Franz von Lenbach (1836-1904)

2- The Leighton House Museum is an art museum in the Holland Park area of ​​the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in West London. The building was the home of the painter Frederic Leighton, first Baron Leighton (1830-1896).

3- Casa Buonarroti is a museum dedicated to Michelangelo in the city of Florence, located in the palace of the Buonarroti family. His main interest is the collection of works by the illustrious sculptor gathered over the centuries by the Buonarroti family.

4- Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde is a museum located in Djurgården, in the center of Stockholm, Sweden. It was the former home of the Swedish prince Eugen. After his death (1947) the house became a museum.

5- James Ensor House, Ostend, Belgium is the surreal house of the expressionist painter James Ensor (1860-1949). The museum shows the spaces where the artist lived and worked, furnished with authentic furniture, full size reproductions and documentary presentations.

6- Leonard Zorn (Mora, Dalarna 1860-1920) was a Swedish impressionist painter, sculptor and printmaker. After his death, his wife Emma founded the Anders Zorn Museum, located in his hometown in 1939. It contains a sample of the Swedish artist's work in all its facets.

7- Sir John Soane’s Museum is a house museum, formerly the home of the neoclassical architect John Soane, located in Holborn, London. It contains many drawings and models of Soane's projects and collections of paintings, drawings, and antiques that he collected.

8- The Mesdag Collection is an art museum in The Hague, Netherlands. The museum is located next to the old house of the Dutch painter Hendrik Willem Mesdag and displays the art that Mesdag and his wife Sina van Houten collected and from painters of the Hague School.

9- Watts Gallery - Artists' Village is an art gallery in the village of Compton, Surrey UK. It is dedicated to the work of the Victorian painter and sculptor George Frederic Watts.

10- Julius Kronberg Studio, Stockholm, Sweden was specially designed for the artist Julius Kronberg (1850-1921). Visitors can view Kronberg's paintings on-site, along with sketches for his frescoes and the sculptures he created to use as models for his paintings.

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413578 (44-72923, PH-JAT) North American P-51D Mustang 'Trusty Rusty' USAAF Flying Legends Duxford 14.07.18 by Phil Rawlings Via Flickr: Built in 1945 by North American Aviation Inc. in Inglewood CA. She flew with the USAF serialled 44-74923 until 1956, serving in the Air National Guards of New Mexico, New Hampshire and Illinois respectively and for training and instruction. Between 1957 and 1969 her civil use was with several crop-dusting companies in California, USA. In 1969 the Mustang was delivered to the Fuerza Aérea Salvadoreña serialled FAS410. Five years later, the (most likely damaged) fighter returned to the States. A first restoration started. Between 1982 and 1992, this Mustang was a frequent participant of the Air Races op Reno NV, most recently as #38 “Miss Ashley”. In 1994 Jaap van Mesdag purchased “Miss Ashley” for the Early Birds collection and had her shipped to the Netherlands. After arrival in the Netherlands in 1995, the plane was stored. Restoration to airworthy condition started in 2004 by volunteers of Vroege Vogels / Early Birds. Test flying ended in 2016 and the fighter became a frequent visitor of airshows and other events. This P-51D Mustang has dual controls. Info Flying Legends website

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Bomschuiten on the Beach of Scheveningen in Winter by Hendrik Willem Mesdag, 1874

The present lot depicts several Bomschuiten on the beach of Scheveningen in winter. The composition is dominated by the hull of a typical Bomschuit at the left of the composition. At the horizon various fishing vessels are being prepared for a day at sea. Some fishermen are busy to string up their horses to pull the heavy vessels into the cold wintery sea. The beach is covered in a white haze of snow and the painting breathes a cool atmosphere with its white and grey hues. Mesdag studied nature precisely and observed the boats and the fishermen he saw on his daily visits to Scheveningen in all-weather circumstances. The present lot is an overwhelming impression of the grey toned Dutch coast he admired so much. Born in Groningen, Hendrik Willem Mesdag started his artistic career in Oosterbeek, a small town on the Veluwe, also called the 'Dutch Barbizon'. In the summer of 1866 he had met the landscape painter Gerard Bilders (1838-1865) who inspired him to study after nature. A few months later he moved to Brussels where he was taught by Willem Roelofs (1822-1897). At that time Paul Gabriel (1828-1903) and Mesdag's cousin Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912) were also living in Brussels and were a great inspiration for Mesdag. In 1868 he would exhibited for the first time at the Societé Libre des Beaux-Arts, where artists could exhibit without being restricted to the rules of the Academy of Brussels. In that same year Mesdag discovered the subject that would inspire him for the rest of his life: the sea. In the summer of 1866 he visited the island Norderney and started to make sketches of the North Sea. To capture the essence of the sea and depict it in its true sense however, he felt he had to be able to see it every day and live close to it. Therefore he decided to move to The Hague. Here he built a house on the Laan van Meerdervoort, where the current Museum Mesdag is situated. In order to be closer to the sea, he purchased a room at the Villa Elba and later at Hotel Rauch, located at the Scheveningen beach. Until his death in 1915, Mesdag visited the sea frequently to seek inspiration for his paintings. From his room he could observe the sea in every weather condition. Mesdag's breakthrough came with the exposition at the Salon in Paris in 1870 where he won the Golden Medal for his painting Les Brisants de la Mer du Nord (now in the collection of the Van Gogh Museum). This painting hung next to Courbet's La Vague and Courbet's influence on Mesdag is noticeable. This recognition confirmed his choice to be a painter of seascapes. From 1870 he exhibited one or two works annually at the Salon during forty years. Art critics called Mesdag one of the greatest painters of The Hague School and in France he was being called 'le poète de la Mer du Nord' for his romantic view on the North Sea. A few years later, in the winter of 1874 Mesdag painted the present work. Only a few seascapes in winter are known by his hand. A truthful rendering of reality and sincerity can be seen in Mesdag's seascapes, whether he painted the North Sea in stormy weather or calm and peaceful, his paintings always make a strong impression on the spectator. The present lot is a beautiful example of Mesdag's work in which he depicts the interesting contrast between the cold grey Dutch sky and the light on the bright white beach.

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Today was the start of a touristy weekend 😄; Michael is in town for a visit so we spent the day in Delft and The Hague, and will head to Amsterdam tomorrow. It rained on and off, with an absolute downpour in the evening 🌧.

Best part of Delft was strolling along the radioactive green canals and climbing up Nieuwe Church for the pretty views below (and the workout walking up hundreds of tiny stairs spiraling up!).

We got back to The Hague just after noon and headed to the Louwman Museum, which is apparently the world’s oldest private collection of cars. The place is HUGE, the building beautiful, the information provided immense and slightly overwhelming, and the cars...well, I’ll let the selection of pictures speak for themselves - so unique! Definitely a paradise for car lovers and super interesting for a non-car lover like me :)

Other points of interest today: Panorma Mesdag, Noordeinde, Peace Palace, and an Embassy Festival which was crazy busy with a ton of stalls from different countries. There was even a Canada booth selling maple syrup 😛.

Another experience to note: we were outside for dinner enjoying good Italian food when the canopy-tent-thing we were sitting under decided to dump a deluge of collected rainwater all over me... so that was fun 😅. And then on the walk home via the Binnehof, it started gusting wind and rain torrential-downpour style to the point where even my beloved Vessis got slightly wet. Needless to say, we were sooo soaked by the time we got home. All I could say was, “Umm, welcome to the Netherlands?” 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Antonio Mancini In the Mesdag collection The Hague Mancini 1852 - Rome, 1930 Italian painter. Was sponsored partly by Mesdag in exchange, he sent in the beginning dozens and later perhaps more than a hundred paintings to Mesdag for exhibitions. He painted mainly in a realistic style, later emphatically with modernist and impressionist influences. https://www.demesdagcollectie.nl/nl/collectie/hwm0180 #mesdagcollectie #19thcenturypainting #antoniomancini #oilpainting #realism #thehague #museums #painting #artoninstagram #michelstichter #artworkvision #artcolectors #mesdag #artoftheday #fineartcoll #art https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz6dnyvI9NV/?igshid=d5xlu4qdbrw9

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Artist interview: Acclaimed Wellingtonian artist Robèrt Franken

Wellington artist Robèrt Franken was born in 1946 in The Hague, into a family with a long and rich artistic heritage. He grew up in the studios of Mesdag, connected with the Panorama Mesdag Museum, and is a sixth-generation artist.

Franken has lived in the Wellington region since the late 1960’s. Robèrt Franken and his work have travelled extensively, with exhibitions in Switzerland, The Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and China over many years. His works are also held in numerous national and international collections, including Wellington’s very own Te Papa.

“The Messenger” © Robèrt Franken

Franken works in a wide variety of mediums, such as glass engraving, ceramics, mosaic and oils. He was responsible for the sparklingly, colourful mosaics at the bottom of shallow ponds between the old Town Hall and the Michael Fowler Centre. His works have been described as Surrealist, but Franken walks to much an individual path to be pigeonholed so easily.

“Into the day” © Robèrt Franken

To illustrate this point, here are a couple of quotes from Franken which clearly demonstrate his unwavering commitment to following his own unique artistic path. “As an artist, one tries to invent a language for which I have no words.” and “Perhaps the true measure of an artist is their ability to see things differently, to redefine reality.”

We are thrilled to be interviewing Franken about his practice and, in particular, his new show Reflections in a pond which just opened at the PATAKA Art + Museum in Porirua. Reflections in a pond runs until the 20th of March. If you can’t make it out to Porirua, Franken regularly exhibits at the  Walrus gallery in Wellington.

Follow this link for details of at PATAKA Art + Museum, and .

We are absolutely thrilled to announce that you can watch our interview with Robèrt Franken below! Or, if you are more a podcast fan, there is also a podcast version of the interview. We wish to extend our heartfelt thanks to Robèrt Franken for his time and giving us such a fabulous interview.

Franken: “My special thanks to Jonathan and Alice Milne for being my sponsor over the past 25 years as Artist in Residence at the Learning Connextion, and to Michelle Homer at Walrus Gallery for my Framing and hanging my works.”

10.98 seconds of Wellington artists / Maschmeyer, Lennart “Wellington, like any other place, is made unique by its people. And Wellington is made a unique place especially by its community of artists. Inside these pages are photographs of musicians on stage or painters at work, capturing both their artistic and private sides. Altogether, the amount of time captured by photographs in this book adds up to just over ten seconds, as is the title. “…an intelligent, empathetic and unique record of the contemporary artistic community within the Wellington region.” -Avenal McKinnon (Director New Zealand Portrait Gallery)” (Adapted from Catalogue)

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Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Boats at Sea 01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #271

Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Boats at Sea 01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #271

Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Dutch, 1831 – 1915 Boats at Sea, c. 1897 Oil on canvas 71 by 57cm., 28 by 22½in. Private collection

Hendrik Willem Mesdag (23 February 1831 – 10 July 1915) was a Dutch marine painter born in Groningen. 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 at…

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Georges Michel (1763–1843) Three Windmills c. 1814-1843

Oil on canvas 50.3 x 69.4 cm

Mesdag Collection, The Hague

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Lighthouse in Breaking Waves, Museum of the Netherlands

From 1870 the fishing village of Scheveningen grew rapidly into a modern seaside resort. Mesdag, however, rarely depicted the boulevard, or the new harbour that was built in 1904. He preferred to paint the traditional life of fishermen. This picture is an exception: a light-house, or rather a beacon. Signal lights, piers and the lighthouse were installed in Scheveningen only in the early 20th century.

http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.9079