A Calm Seascape - Opdenhoff, George Willem

Fine Art

Opdenhoff, George Willem

An artist who worked primarily in Rotterdam and The Hague, George Willem Opdenhoff focused his creativity on landscape and marine subjects. He studied with the renowned landscape painter Andreas Schelfhout, and the influential marine painter Johannes Christiaan Schotel. Opdenhoff traveled extensively, working throughout Europe: in Breda from 1837 to 1837, then in France, and then Rotterdam, before settling near The Hague. He exhibited at The Hague throughout his career, from 1835 until 1861.