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Fishing and trade at sea provided exceptional prosperity in the 17th century, the "Golden Age". Paintings by Dutch painters with naval battles and historical scenes enjoyed enormous popularity. There was not much interest in the genre of seascapes in the Netherlands in the 18th century. It was not revived until the 19th century and the sea piece became very popular again. It had to radiate the glory of the Golden Age on its own time and capture the naval battles against the Napoleonic ruler. New types of ships developed and commercial shipping revived.

In Zeeland, various members of the Koekkoek family of painters established their name at the beginning of the 19th century. Ancestor Johannes painted cityscapes with waters, historical scenes, but especially ships on a troubled sea, "tossing waters". Ships with blown sails, slowly sinking in crashing waves and drowning people clinging to wreckage to rescue them. But ships anchored on reflective, calm water, in calm waters, were also his specialty. Hermanus Koekkoek sr, youngest son of Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek followed in his father's footsteps as a marine painter. Just like his father, Hermanus had a great eye for the daily life of the fishing people on the ships. He also excelled in the accurate representation of different ship types with accompanying rigging, the virtuoso drawing of the water and the lively, narrative upholstery. His work area was initially in the Zeeland waters and later, when he lived in Durgerdam and Amsterdam, on the Zuiderzee, which was then busy with commercial shipping.

In the course of the 19th century a shift can be seen in naval painting from the sea to the beach and from shipping to figures on ships. The emphasis was on the reproduction of carefree scenes that took place on the beach. The coast became more and more a place for pleasure than for work. Portraying fishermen's suffering, previously often the subject in the paintings of Jozef Isaels, was generally avoided. An exception to this was Hendrik Mesdag, who chose to paint at a relatively late age. He continued to see the high seas, with few or no ships, as the main theme. He captured beach and sea in its constantly changing moods from his beach cabin on Scheveningen beach. In a quick, loose touch and with an endless variety of brown, gold and gray colors, he brought these motifs to the canvas. Mesdag had a large production, as if he wanted to make up for lost time.

In the 20th century, naval painting gradually lost ground. Artists are drawn by the light of the water landscapes and the mundane atmosphere along the seaside resorts on the coast. Fishermen and their ships disappear from view and are replaced by flaneurs on the beaches and boulevards. However, sailing professional shipping, which populated our rivers for decades in the 20th century, remains an attractive image for painters.

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Louis Meijer | Outgoing lifeboat, oil on panel, 85.0 x 130.5 cm, signed l.r. and dated 1857

Louis Meijer

painting • for sale

Outgoing lifeboat, 1857

Georg Hambüchen | Incoming fishing boats, oil on canvas, 40.2 x 50.4 cm, signed l.l.

Georg Hambüchen

painting • for sale

Incoming fishing boats

Abraham Hulk | Fishing boats in a strong breeze at the harbour entrance, oil on panel, 36.5 x 53.5 cm, signed l.l.

Abraham Hulk

painting • for sale

Fishing boats in a strong breeze at the harbour entrance

Hermanus Koekkoek | Sunset on the Dutch coast, oil on tin laid down on panel, 9.8 x 14.7 cm, signed l.l. with initials

Hermanus Koekkoek

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Sunset on the Dutch coast

Jan H.B. Koekkoek | Fisherwomen selling their catch a Zuiderzee harbour, oil on panel, 53.2 x 73.0 cm, signed l.l. and dated 1894

Jan H.B. Koekkoek

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Fisherwomen selling their catch a Zuiderzee harbour, 1894

Georg Hambüchen | White boats, oil on canvas, 50.3 x 40.2 cm, signed l.l.

Georg Hambüchen

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White boats

Antonie Waldorp | The gun salute, oil on panel, 21.1 x 28.5 cm, signed l.r.

Antonie Waldorp

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The gun salute

Hermanus Koekkoek | Fishermen and travellers at a rural harbour, oil on panel, 21.3 x 32.5 cm, signed l.l.

Hermanus Koekkoek

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Fishermen and travellers at a rural harbour

Ko Cossaar | Picadilly Circus, London, oil on canvas, 46.5 x 61.2 cm, signed l.l. and painted ca. 1901-1909

Ko Cossaar

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Picadilly Circus, London, ca.

Evert Moll | A breakwater in a storm, oil on canvas, 39.0 x 51.4 cm, signed l.r.

Evert Moll

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A breakwater in a storm

Erasmus Bernhard von Dülmen Krumpelmann | The harbour of Hoorn, black chalk and watercolour on paper, 75.8 x 57.0 cm, signed l.r.

Erasmus Bernhard von Dülmen Krumpelmann

watercolour • drawing • for sale

The harbour of Hoorn

Gerard Delfgaauw | Shipping at Rotterdam, oil on canvas, 18.8 x 24.7 cm, signed l.r.

Gerard Delfgaauw

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Shipping at Rotterdam

Herman Heijenbrock | Harbour of IJmuiden at dusk with the lighthouse and semaphore, pastel on paper, 64.5 x 86.5 cm, signed l.l.

Herman Heijenbrock

watercolour • drawing • for sale

Harbour of IJmuiden at dusk with the lighthouse and semaphore

Hermanus Koekkoek | Shipwreck near a rocky coast, oil on panel, 42.5 x 55.5 cm, signed l.r. and dated 1834

Hermanus Koekkoek

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Shipwreck near a rocky coast, 1834

Evert Moll | A view of the Maashaven, Rotterdam, oil on canvas, 81.0 x 164.5 cm, signed l.l.

Evert Moll

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A view of the Maashaven, Rotterdam

Bart van Hove | Shipping on the river near a city, watercolour on paper, 24.0 x 35.0 cm, signed l.r.

Bart van Hove

watercolour • drawing • for sale

Shipping on the river near a city

Erwin Günther | Sailing ships on the high seas, oil on canvas, 65.5 x 101.0 cm, signed l.l.

Erwin Günther

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Sailing ships on the high seas

German Grobe | Mill on the outskirts of town with harbor and sailing boat, oil on canvas, 60.0 x 80.5 cm, signed l.r.

German Grobe

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Mill on the outskirts of town with harbor and sailing boat

Pieter Cornelis  Dommershuijzen | Shipwreck of the English bark P. Nicolas - alias De Olieman - off the coast near Zandvoort, oil on canvas, 57.0 x 102.0 cm, signed l.r. and dated 1881

Pieter Cornelis Dommershuijzen

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Shipwreck of the English bark P. Nicolas - alias De Olieman - off the coast near Zandvoort, 1881

Ramon Dilley | Cannes, Le Carlton, oil on canvas, 30.0 x 60.3 cm, signed l.l. and dated '82

Ramon Dilley

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Cannes, Le Carlton, 1982

Paul Charavel | Boat at the Bay of Saint-Tropez, oil on canvas, 156.5 x 226.2 cm, signed l.r.

Paul Charavel

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Boat at the Bay of Saint-Tropez

Abraham Hulk | Sailing ships anchored at sunset, oil on canvas, 40.5 x 60.8 cm, signed l.r.

Abraham Hulk

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Sailing ships anchored at sunset

Andreas Schelfhout | Sailing vessels and a steamer on open water, oil on panel, 67.6 x 90.6 cm, signed l.l. and dated 1845

Andreas Schelfhout

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Sailing vessels and a steamer on open water, 1845

Evert Moll | Ship traffic at Rotterdam's harbour, oil on canvas, 40.4 x 60.0 cm, signed l.r.

Evert Moll

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Ship traffic at Rotterdam's harbour

Christiaan Lodewijk Willem Dreibholtz | Ships on the coast of the Zuiderzee, oil on panel, 41.2 x 52.8 cm, signed l.r.

Christiaan Lodewijk Willem Dreibholtz

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Ships on the coast of the Zuiderzee

Petrus Paulus Schiedges | Sailing ships on a choppy sea, oil on panel, 38.7 x 51.8 cm, signed l.r. and dated 1835

Petrus Paulus Schiedges

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Sailing ships on a choppy sea, 1835

Leonard Johannes de Gijselaar | Shipping off Vlissingen, oil on panel, 34.7 x 46.4 cm, signed l.l. and dated 1857

Leonard Johannes de Gijselaar

painting • for sale

Shipping off Vlissingen, 1857

Leendert van der Vlist | Fishing barges moored in a canal, oil on canvas laid down on panel, 26.9 x 36.5 cm, signed l.l.

Leendert van der Vlist

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Fishing barges moored in a canal


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