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Famous Dutch Painters from Dordrecht, Ancient Capital of Holland
Part 19
49. Petrus Johannes Schotel
50. Anthonie Pieter 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.
Petrus Johannes Schotel
Dordrecht 1808 - Dresden 1865
Petrus Johannes was a pupil of his father Johannes Christian Schotel, and like him, specialized in sea and river views. He travelled in France between 1827-1829, and as a result of this journey, he adopted a warmer palette, while continuing to emphasize the dramatic elements of the sea. Between 1830 and 1848 he taught drawing at the Marine Institute in Medemblick, and was considered an expert on the technical and historical details of ships. Towards the end of his life, in 1856, he moved to Germany.
A Fresh Breeze off Port
Petrus Johannes Schotel
Oil on panel 44,5 x 61,5 cm
South African National Gallery
Smacks and freight ships on obstreperous sea
Petrus Johannes Schotel
Oil on panel 26,7 x 36,2 cm
Private collection
River view with ferryboat and sailboats
Petrus Johannes Schotel
Oil on panel 14,9 x 20 cm
Private collection
Sailboats in a harbor mouth in serene weather
Petrus Johannes Schotel
Oil on panel 12 x 14,3 cm
Private collection
Serene estuary with Sailboats
Petrus Johannes Schotel
Oil on canvas 70,5 x 88,7 cm
Private collection
Sailing vessels off the coast on choppy waters
Petrus Johannes Schotel
Oil on panel 30 x 41 cm
Private collection
Shipping in an estuary
Petrus Johannes Schotel, 1834
Oil on panel 34.5 x 46.5 cm
Private collection
Setting out to sea
Petrus Johannes Schotel
Oil on panel 50 x 60 cm
Private collection
Sailing vessels in rough seas
Petrus Johannes Schotel
Oil on Canvas 115.3 x 149.9 cm
Private collection
Shipping in a calm
Petrus Johannes Schotel
Oil on canvas 71 x 89 cm
Private collection
Sea-battle at the roadstead of Downs, October 21, 1639
Petrus Johannes Schotel, 1850
Hand-colored lithograph 38 x 28 cm
Private collection
Great Dutch naval victory over the Spanish during the Thirty Years War.
A great Spanish Armada of 75 ships, containing 13,000 recruits bound for Flanders from Spain was intercepted by a much smaller Dutch fleet of 18 ships under Admiral Maarten Tromp.
On 16 September the Dutch first attacked and forced the Spanish to withdraw. A second attack on 18 September by a now reinforced Dutch fleet forced the Spanish to flee into neutral English waters and seek shelter in the Downs roadstead. While a weak English squadron attempted to prevent any fighting,
Tromp resupplied, and on 21 October launched an attack into neutral waters. English attempts at protecting the Spanish were ineffective, and Tromp inflicted a crushing defeat on the Spanish fleet. Seventy Spanish ships were sunk or captured. The battle destroyed what remained of Spanish naval power, seriously weakened their position in Flanders, and gave the Dutch undisputed naval supremacy.
Battle between Dutch and English fleet, June 13, 1665
Petrus Johannes Schotel, 1850
Hand-colored lithograph 38 x 28 cm
Private collection
The first day of the Four Days battle, June 11, 1666
Petrus Johannes Schotel
Oil on canvas 46.5 x 63.5 cm
On auction at Rob Cattenburg Dutch old master marine paintings, drawings and prints
Honors were about even at the end of the first day of the Four Days' Battle, despite the fact that the English were outnumbered. Two Dutch ships were sunk, but the English lost three as prizes, and a further two were forced to run for harbor. This painting shows the moment when the Amsterdam captain, Heijndrick Adriaensz. of the Third Squadron, has himself rowed across to the captured Swiftsure, the flagship of Vice-Admiral William Berkeley, who had been killed in the fighting. The English colors have been struck and replaced by the Dutch tricolor. Right of the Swiftsure is the Dutch warship Reiger.
Attack of the French fleet on the Netherlands fleet in Palermo, June 2, 1676
Petrus Johannes Schotel, 1850
Hand-colored lithograph 38 x 28 cm
Private collection
Anthonie Pieter Schotel
Dordrecht 1890 - Laren 1958
Anthonie Pieter Schotel, descendant of the famous marine-painter Johannes Christiaan Schotel wanted from an early age to be a painter. In 1901 he received his first and only painting lessons from Hermanus Gunneweg. According to the wishes of his parents, he initially worked in the trade, at the age of 25 (1915) he rented a studio at the Boomkade in Dordrecht and he painted there ten years with short breaks for travels to Bruges in 1920 where he met the Belgian painter Maurice Sijs (1880-1972), in 1923 he made a trip to the French coast, including St. Malo. In 1926 he left to Volendam and Villefranche in southern France. From 1929 to 1959 he lived in Laren with short breaks for travels to Normandy, Brittany and Paris in 1936. From the beginning of his career he became a famous painter. His paintings of the Zuiderzee would deliver him the greatest fame.
Schotel painted many river and sea views and drew sea, river and harbor views, where the port of Volendam was favorite but also Urk, the Zuiderzee and the Loosdrecht lakes also had a great attraction. On his first paintings a grayish tone dominated. Later he used pastel colors and his brush lining less wide and strong. Schotel practiced the pointillist technique. He was a member of the associations 'Pictura' in Dordrecht and St. Lucas' and 'Arti et Amicitiae' in Amsterdam. Schotel died in Laren on September 24, 1958.
Ships on the river at Dordrecht
Anthonie Pieter Schotel, 1916
Oil on canvas 132 x 190 cm
Dordrechts Museum
Scene from the Boomkade at Dordrecht
Anthonie Pieter Schotel, 1919
Oil on canvas 38,4 x 50,4 cm
Dordrechts Museum
Schotel's love was for ships and water. In his studio on the Boomkade he had the issues directly for taking. Schotel worked preferably outside, the atmosphere he directly painted on the canvas in 'magic' - in a range of blue, brown, gray and yellow tones. His work is typically Dutch, but by the many nuances never bleak. Again, the clouds broke open and the sun does snow leftovers lights.
The Boomkade in Dordrecht
Anthonie Pieter Schotel, 1920
Oil on panel 29,4 x 40 cm
Dordrechts Museum
The gray skies by the surrounding river above the city every day, are seldom smooth gray. Schotel saw that and gave his skies a range of colors ranging from violet to red to orange pink. He initially created gray shades in a harmonious whole, then he made under the influence of French impressionism and use of colors like purple, blue and red he retained brightness.
Private collections
Marina clubhouse of the KDRZV at Dordrecht
Anthonie Pieter Schotel, 1922
Oil on canvas 59,5 x 68,5 cm
Private collection
Moored flatbottom
Anthonie Pieter Schotel
Oil on canvas 32 x 37,5 cm
Private collection
The Merwedekade in Dordrecht
Anthonie Pieter Schotel
Oil on canvas on board 16,7 x 24 cm
Private collection
Canal with barges
Anthonie Pieter Schotel
Oil on canvas 40,1 x 50,3 cm
Private collection
Reading on the beach
Anthonie Pieter Schotel
Oil on canvas on board 36,6 x 31,2 cm
Private collection
Flat bottom on the IJsselmeer
Anthonie Pieter Schotel, 1926
Oil on canvas 32,5 x 48,5 cm
Private collection
Portrait of a Parisian
Anthonie Pieter Schotel, 1924
Oil on canvas 56,5 x 46,3 cm
Private collection
Beach plasure at Scheveningen
Anthonie Pieter Schotel
Oil on canvas 80,2 x 101 cm
Private collection
Still life of three pears on a Gooi and Eemlander Newspaper
Anthonie Pieter Schotel
Oil on canvas on panel 31,4 x 40,3 cm
Private collection
Hoogaartsen in the port of Veere
Anthonie Pieter Schotel
Oil on canvas 80 x 90 cm
Private collection
Sailing out of a Volendam botter
Anthonie Pieter Schotel
Oil on canvas 80 x 100 cm
Private collection
Sailboats in a harbor at down
Anthonie Pieter Schotel, 1919
Oil on panel 17,9 x 25,1 cm
Private collection
Sailboats near Marken
Anthonie Pieter Schotel, 1923
Oil on canvas 47 x 64,5 cm
Private collection
Sailboats on a lake
Anthonie Pieter Schotel
Oil on canvas on panel 24,6 x 38,3 cm
Private collection
House of the painter Voerman, Tafelbergweg Laren
Anthonie Pieter Schotel
Oil on canvas 53 x 73 cm
Private collection
View on Gorkum
Anthonie Pieter Schotel
Oil on canvas 45 x 60 cm
Private collection
Barges near the dromedary in Enkhuizen
Anthonie Pieter Schotel
Oil on canvas 40 x 41 cm
Private collection
The Merwede river at Dordrecht
Anthonie Pieter Schotel
Oil on panel 29 x 29 cm
Private collection
Rush hour on the Place de L'Opéra, Paris
Anthonie Pieter Schotel, 1924
Oil on canvas 60 x 80 cm
Private collection
A view of the Leidseplein Amsterdam
Anthonie Pieter Schotel
Oil on Canvas 60 x 70 cm
Private collection
A view of the Frederiksplein Amsterdam
Anthonie Pieter Schotel
Oil on canvas 60 x 70 cm
Private collection
Rotterdam port with a boat from the Hapag Lloyd from Bremen
Anthonie Pieter Schotel, 1925
Oil on canvas
Private collection