Mauritz de Haas
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| Maurits Frederik Hendrik de Haas | |
| Born | 1832-12-12[1] Rotterdam |
| Died | 1895-11-23[1] New York |
| Nationality | USA |
| Field | Painting |
| Movement | Realism |
| Influenced | William Bliss Baker |
Maurits Frederik Hendrik de Haas (1832-12-12, Rotterdam - 1895-11-23, New York) was a Dutch-American marine painter. His name later has been written as Mauritz Frederik de Haas, Maurice F. H. de Haas, Maurice Frederic Henri de Haas, Mauritz Frederick Hendrick De Haas, "Maurice Frederick Hendrick de Haas", as well as various other variations.[2]
He was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands. He studied art in the Rotterdam Academy and at The Hague, under Johannes Bosboom and Louis Meyer, and in 1851-1852 in London, following the English watercolourists of the day. In 1857 he received an artists commission in the Dutch Navy, but in 1859, under the patronage of August Belmont, who had recently been minister of the United States at The Hague, he resigned and moved to New York City.
He became an associate of the National Academy in 1863 and an academician in 1867, and exhibited annually in the academy, and in 1866 he was one of the founders of the American Society of Painters in Water Colors. He died in 1895.
His Farragut Passing the Forts at the Battle of New Orleans and The Rapids above Niagara, which were exhibited at the Paris Exposition of 1878, were his best known but not his most typical works, for his favorite subjects were storm and wreck, wind and heavy surf, and less often moonlight on the coasts of Holland, of Jersey, of New England, and of Long Island, and on the English Channel.
His brother Willem Frederik de Haas (1830-1880) was also a marine painter.
[edit] Works
- Afternoon on Saco Bay, Coast of Maine (1874)
- Fishing Boats at Anchor (1883)
- Rocky Coast (unknown)
[edit] References
This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
