Dutch masters' seascapes come alive at PEM Chris Bergeron/ [email protected] As their country’s ships explored the New World, Dutch painters discovered that the sea, unlike human subjects, never ...

Seascapes were more or less invented by Dutch artists of the 17th century, as a means of celebrating the nation’s naval pre-eminence.

In MutualArt’s artist press archive, Abraham Willaerts is featured in The Golden Age of Dutch Seascapes will be on View at the Peabody Essex Museum, a piece from ArtDaily in May 2009. The artist died ...

When art conservators in the United Kingdom were cleaning a 17th-century Dutch seascape, they found a surprise: an image of a beached whale that had been hidden for at least 150 years.

3. Anton Mauve's Morning Ride along the Beach (1876), Rijksmuseum, Museumstraat. In the second half of the 19th century, a group of Dutch artists headquartered in The Hague brought international ...