Seascape near the Dutch coast, Rietschoof Hendrik

Beautiful seascape in the purest Dutch tradition of the 17th century school of painting. A large merchant ship is approaching the coast, where two windmills are standing. A barrel in the middle of the water, sailors in the rowing boat going to the coast. Clair blue skies, green waters of the North Sea. Attributed to the Dutch painter Hendrik Rietschoof. Black frame.

Size: H 45cm x W 65 – H 58 cm x W 78 cm

Dutch school of the late 17th century

Lit: Hendrik Rietschoof (Hoorn, baptised 2 August 1678 – Koog aan de Zaan or Wormerveer, May 1746) was a northern Dutch painter and draughtsman. He was trained as a painter by his father Jan Claesz and Ludolf Backhuysen. Like his father, he turned to painting seascapes. He married Maritie Compostel, daughter of a Hoorn timber merchant, on 10 May 1705. They subsequently settled in Wormerveer.
Works by Rietschoof are in the collections of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, the Museum der bildendenden Künste in Leipzig, the Royal Museums Greenwich and the British Museum in London.