Friedrich Fritz Hildebrandt, Hauling In The Nets

Friedrich Fritz Hildebrandt, Hauling In The NetsThis mid 19th century oil painting by German artist Friedrich Fritz Hildebrandt (1819 1885) depicts a coastal fishing scene, most likely set along the northern European shoreline, where figures gather at the waters edge to haul in their daily catch. Painted in 1846, it reflects the artists close observation of maritime life. A quiet industry unfolds beneath a vast, luminous sky. At the shoreline, a small group of fishermen and women stand knee deep in

and one who hath communicated some useful papers to the Royal Society

Realising his fate

Van der Mijn was an exceedingly talented portraitist

In around 1675

For a country boy with a sketchbook

Held in a mid-19th-century gilt frame with a shallow moulded profile

Although the painter remains unidentified

Signed/dated in the upper left and held in a late 19th-century ‘Watts’ frame

It’s also conceivable that some have mistakenly been attributed to the father

and it’s likely that our sitter is German

and there sat till almost quite darke upon working my gowne

The sea shimmering with blue tones