Petrus Paulus Schiedges artwork • painting • for sale The beach of Scheveningen with bathing carriages, fishermen and fishing boats

P.P. Schiedges, a painter of sea and river views, carefully studied the types of ships, which enabled him to reproduce them in the smallest detail. In this Scheveningen beach scene, he shows that other things also interested him. The funny bathing carriages, for example, which are crisscrossed on the beach in all shapes and sizes. But he also carefully depicts the row of dunes with his 'architecture parade'. On the far left is the municipal bathhouse, which opened in 1828. The Kurhaus now stands here. The red brick building next door is Hotel Garni, which was demolished in 1974. It was built on the site of the former bathhouse 'Pronkenburg' by Jacob Pronk, the 'pioneer of Dutch bathing life', had stood. The white building on the right in the distance, towards the church of Scheveningen, is the Paviljoen Von Wied. This was built in 1826 by order of King Willem I, who with this house by the sea protected the poor health of his wife Wilhelmina of Prussia hoped to improve. One of his grandchildren, Princess Marie of Orange-Nassau, inherited the pavilion in 1881. The building owes its name to her husband, Prince Wilhem von Wied. The pavilion is still there and the Museum Beelden aan Zee is now located in the dune around.