George Wilhelm Opdenhoff, 1807 Fulda – 1873 Den Haag THE LANDED CATCH Oil on canvas. Doubled. 71 x 98 cm. Signed "G.W. Opdenhoff" lower left. In profiled frame. In oblique incident light, which bathes the maritime scene in a golden brown beneath gray clouds, the depiction of a landing single-master with numerous figures unloading the goods; in the background on the shore a low lighthouse. Pupil of Andreas Schelfhout (1787-1870) and J.C. Schotel (1787-1838). Worked in Rotterdam and from 1842 in The Hague. Painting by his hand in the Municipal Museum, The Hague. (14012416) (13) George Wilhelm Opdenhoff, 1807 Fulda - 1873 The Hague LANDING THE FISH HAUL Oil on canvas. Relined. 71 x 98 cm. Signed lower left: G.W. Opdenhoff.

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