DETAILS
- Artist
- Hendrik Willem Mesdag
- Date
- 1500
- Location
- Rijksmuseum
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THE ARTIST
Hendrik Willem Mesdag
Hendrik Willem Mesdag, a Dutch marine painter, famously captured the vastness of the North Sea, even creating a monumental 360-degree panorama of Scheveningen.
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