Restoration of Panorama of Scheveningen started

“Two restorers officially began cleaning and refurbishing the Panorama of Scheveningen yesterday. The 1680 square meter (120 x 14 cm) painted canvas depicts the Scheveningen beach with ships on it. This extensive major undertaking will take three months, during which the public is allowed to watch,” according to an article in the Leeuwarder Courant of June 12, 2024.

Article in two parts

This article consists of two parts. This first short part deals with the restoration of the Panorama of ScheveningenPart two regarding the publication 'André van Duin 60 Years Public Favorite' can only be read tomorrow, due to the embargo placed upon it.

NVPH 1632 – Panorama Mesdag

Got into 1880 Hendrik Willem Mesdag The commission from a panorama company from Brussels to create a circular painting (visitors stand in the center of it), something that was very popular at the time. Painter Mesdag (representative of The Hague Impressionist painting) made it together with his wife. Sientje Mesdag-Van Houten, George Hendrik Breitner, Théophile de Bock en Bernhard BlommersThe group took four months to complete it. The stamp image creates an illusion of the painting of the North Sea beach with Scheveningen in the background in 1881 through the extreme distortion with visitors in the foreground.

Tomorrow, part two: André van Duin 60 years as a crowd favorite