Louis Meijer
Self-portrait
Storm In The Strait Of Dover
Conquest Of Palembang, Sumatra In Indonesia, By Lieutenant-general Baron De Kock, June 24, 1821
Johan Hendrik Louis Meijer (9 March 1809 – 31 March 1866) was a Dutch painter, etcher, lithographer, and draftsman.[1] He painted in the Romantic tradition and is best known for his seascapes.
Meijer was born in Amsterdam in the Kingdom of Holland, present-day Netherlands.[1] He studied under George Pieter Westenberg and Jan Willem Pieneman, and lived in Deventer, from 1841 in Paris and then in The Hague.[2] Matthijs Maris was a pupil of Meijer's,[3] beginning in 1854.[4] Meijer died at the age of 57, in Utrecht in the Netherlands.[1]
Gallery
Seascape of a beach coastline with a large dual-mast ship tied to land. Four people are walking along the shore and there is another ship in the background.
On the coast
Seascape of a number of smaller ships with people on them. The ship in the center is a rowboat with two French flags and there are some larger, multi-masted ships in the background.
Arrival in France of Bonaparte on the return from Egypt on 9 October 1799
Two ships in rough seas with dark clouds on the horizon. There is a third ship in the background.
Storm in the Strait of Dover
A number of large, tall ships on calm seas. The ship in the center is flanked by a number of smaller rowboats with people on them.
Baron Hendrik Merkus de Kock's fleet conquering Palembang, Sumatra, on 24 June 1821
References
"Louis Meijer", RKD, 2014. Retrieved 18 December 2014.
Gerarda Hermina Marius, tr. A. Teixeira de Mattos, Dutch Art in the Nineteenth Century,Philadelphia: Lippincott / London: Alexander Moring, 1909, OCLC 29080462, pp. 61–62.
Geraldine Norman, Nineteenth-century Painters and Painting: A Dictionary, London: Thames & Hudson / Berkeley: University of California, 1977, ISBN 9780520033283, p. 142.
Ruth K. Meyer, The Taft Museum: Its History and Collections, Volume 1 New York: Hudson Hills, 1995, ISBN 9781555950569, p. 282.
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