Johannes Christiaan and Christina Petronella Schotel

Written by L.C.Geerts
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Famous Dutch Painters from Dordrecht, Ancient capital of Holland

Part 18

47. Johannes Christiaan Schotel
48. Christina Petronella Schotel

Note : Please do not email me with technical questions about paintings and their age and origin because I am not an expert but I only have gathered information about the Painters from the Netherlands and specially from Dordrecht.

Dordrecht is not only known as the oldest city and ancient capital of Holland but also for the many famous painters who were born or lived in Dordrecht during the late Middle ages and later centuries.

On the next pages you can find many works from these famous painters who were responsible for many styles of paintings and they immortalized the daily life and landscapes in the 15th to 19th century. Most of their masterpieces are nowadays part of collections in museums all over the world and of which many can be seen in the local Dordrechts Museum.

Johannes Christiaan Schotel

Dordrecht 1787 - Dordrecht 1838

Johannes Christiaan Schotel had actually succeed his father, who owned a factory. However, he discovered early on that he could draw well. In 1805 he was member of the Drawing Societssy Pictura in Dordrecht. The brothers Abraham and Jacob van Strij had a lot of influence on his development. In 1808 Schotel took lesson from Martinus Schouman, a prominent painter of seascapes. It soon became clear that the pupil would surpass his master. Schotel grew into a versatile artist, who signed in the tradition of seventeenth-century marine as Willem van de Velde the Elder (1611-1693) and Ludolf Bakhuysen (1630-1708). His specialty was the appearance of vessels, gear and people against a background of sky and water.

Schotel can be regarded as the primary marine painter of the nineteenth century. He had a large customer base and was known at home and abroad.

Stranding of the three-master Delphine at Zandvoort in 1822

Johannes Christiaan Schotel
Oil on canvas 78 x 101 cm
Dordrechts museum

In three studies, commissioned by the merchant and the Dordtse shipowner Jacobus de Voogd, Schotel painted the sinking of the ship Delphine. During the shipwreck a young nephew of the guardian died.

Schotel made two paintings of the disaster. On one we see the ship in distress, on the other, the fate has taken place. Special is that the painter had his own observation dominate over the traditional view of shipwrecks from the seventeenth century. The unique representation, in these paintings are highlights in the history of the marine-painting.

Stranding of the three-master Delphine at Zandvoort in 1822

Johannes Christiaan Schotel
Oil on canvas 78 x 105 cm
Dordrechts Museum

Painting 1 : The Delphine in distress

Stranding of the three-master Delphine at Zandvoort in 1822

Johannes Christiaan Schotel Oil on canvas 78 x 105 cm Dordrechts Museum

Painting 2 : The fate has taken place

Turbulent water with sailboats on the streams of Zeeland

Schotel, Johannes Christiaan
Oil on panel 63,6 x 83,8 cm
Dordrechts Museum

A quietss scene with a "Zwartewaalse gaffelaar"

Johannes Christiaan Schotel
Oil on panel 79 x 103,3 cm
Dordrechts Museum

During his career Schotel received numerous awards. In 1823 he took part with this painting with a major exhibition in Ghent. The work was considered by the assessment as "the best painting "eener stille zee" (a quietss sea) and crowned with a gold medal.

Ships on a rough sea

Johannes Christiaan Schotel, 1827
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

City view in Dordrecht

J. Schoenmakers en J.C. Schotel, 1819/21
Oil on panel 50 x 64 cm
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Fishing-village in the dunes

Johannes Christiaan Schotel
Brush in water and bodycolor, black chalk 25,8 x 31,5 cm
Teylers Museum Haarlem

Turbulent water

Johannes Christiaan Schotel, 1825
Oil on canvas 124,7 x 164,5 cm
Teijlers museum Haarlem

Still water

Johannes Christiaan Schotel, 1829
Oil on canvas 125,5 x 165 cm
Teijlers museum Haarlem

Private collections

The shelling of the city of Dordrecht by the French in 1795

Johannes Christiaan Schotel
or Aert Schouman, 1815
Private collection

Estuary with sailing vessels

Johannes Christiaan Schotel
Oil on Canvas 124.5 x 165.4 cm
Private collection

Shipping on an estuary

Johannes Christiaan Schotel
Oil on Canvas 81.5 x 110 cm
Private collection

Fishing boats from the shore

Johannes Christiaan Schotel
Oil on panel 69 x 85.5 cm
Private collection

Offloading the catch in the harbor in still water

Johannes Christiaan Schotel
Oil on panel 42 x 52.5 cm
Private collection

Sailing vessels approaching a shore on a turbulent sea

Johannes Christiaan Schotel
Oil on panel 38 x 51 cm
Private collection

Dutch vessels on a turbulent sea by a harbor entrance

Johannes Christiaan Schotel
Oil on panel 50 x 65.5 cm
Private collection

A Dutch barge setting out to sea

Johannes Christiaan Schotel
Oil on canvas 17.1 x 22.2 cm
Private collection

View on Dordrecht

Johannes Christiaan Schotel
Private collection

Johannes Christiaan Schotel on Auctions