George W. Opdenhoff Biography

A painter who worked primarily in Rotterdam and La Haye, George Willem Opdenhoff focused his creative output on landscape and marine subjects.

He studied with the landscape painter Andreas Schelfhout and with the marine painter Johannes Christiaan Schotel. He traveled extensively and worked throughout Europe; in Breda from 1837 then to France, and then to Rotterdam before settling near The Hague. He exhibited at The Hague throughout his career, from 1835 to 1861.

Opdenhoff depicts groups of merchant ships anchored along the Dutch coast. The whole scene is painted in a smooth manner and links him to a Neo-Classical tradition that arose in the Netherlands during the 19th century.

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