George Willem Opdenhoff artwork • painting • for sale Shipping in a calm
George Willem Opdenhoff
Fulda (Duitsland) 1807-1873 Den Haag
1807-1873
Shipping in a calm
oil on canvas 60.2 x 79.3 cm, signed l.r.
This painting is for sale.
Price: € 6,500
Provenance: coll. Cees en Jarmila Kamerbeek, Amersfoort.
Literature: Cees Kamerbeek, Jarmila Kamerbeek, Marjan de Man, Onno Maurer, 'Jongkind tot Van der Leck: de passie van een collectioneur. Collectie Kamerbeek', Amersfoort 2007, afb. in kleur pag. 22.
Exhibited: Amersfoort, Museum Flehite, 'Jongkind tot Van der Leck: de passie van een collectioneur. Collectie Kamerbeek', jan.-april 2007.
Opdenhoff was the only one of Andreas Schelfhout’s pupils who solely painted seascapes. The influence of J.C. Schotel, who previously taught him, is probably the reason for this. It was from him that he learned about various types of ships and their distinctive rigging as well as practising how to paint choppy waters. By Schelfhout he was taught the balanced division of motifs across the canvas and diagonal composition. Certainly, whenever he took what his mentors taught him seriously, he attained a high artistic level with his splendidly detailed harbour, sea and river views.
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