20.5 x 30.5 cm. Framed : 35 x 44 cm (gold stucco frame).

Several sailors in front of the bright cliffs on a sunny day. A small defect.

If it is the painter Hendrik Willem Mesdag, then the following biographical data apply: Dutch marine painter (1831 Groningen - 1915 The Hague), brother of Taco, husband of Sientje. He worked in his father's banking business until the age of 35, then switched to painting in 1866 and worked for Roelofs and Bilders in Gelderland and for his cousin Lawrence Alma Tadema in Brussels.

Literature : Thieme/Becker.