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Mesdag, H(endrik) W(illem)
(b Groningen, 23 Feb 1831; d The Hague, 10 July 1915). Dutch painter and collector. As a child and while he worked as a clerk in his father’s bank, he took lessons in drawing and painting, first with C. B. Buijs (1808–72) and later with J. H. Egenberger (1822–97), Director of the Academie Minerva in Groningen. It was not until 1866 that Mesdag made painting his profession. That summer he and his wife, Sientje van Houten (1834–1909), worked en plein air near Oosterbeek with the landscape painter J. W. Bilders (1811–90). From the autumn of 1866 to 1869 they lived in Brussels, where Mesdag trained with Willem Roelofs, the first Dutch artist to pay regular visits to Barbizon, and where he came into contact with young Belgian Realist painters, such as Alfred Verwée, Louis Artan and Louis Dubois. In this period Mesdag learnt to render his impressions from nature accurately and directly.
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