# Hendrik Willem Mesdag artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/hendrik-willem-mesdag/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T22:27:31.451Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Dutch
- Common media: Painting, Watercolor, Etching, Lithography

## Portrait

![Hendrik Willem Mesdag](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/Mesdag-Haverman.jpg)
Hendrik Haverman · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mesdag-Haverman.jpg

## About Hendrik Willem Mesdag

Hendrik Willem Mesdag (1831–1915) was a Dutch painter whose public identity is closely associated with marine subjects. Authority data identifies him broadly as a painter, while English- and Indonesian-language summaries describe him more specifically as a marine painter. A Dutch-language profile also records activity in watercolor, etching, and lithography. Together, these sources present an artist whose documented practice extended from painting into works on paper and printmaking. Collectors may therefore encounter the Mesdag name in connection with marine paintings, watercolors, etchings, or lithographs. The collected excerpts do not provide enough institution-grade detail to assign a movement or school confidently, so this profile leaves that classification open. Stable links to Wikidata, museum records, and library authority files help distinguish Hendrik Willem Mesdag from similarly named people and support entity matching across collection catalogues, image repositories, and auction data.

## Common works and media

Works encountered in collection and appraisal contexts may include paintings with marine subjects, along with watercolors, etchings, and lithographs. The source pack establishes these practices but does not document particular series, edition structures, dimensions, signatures, or recurring named compositions.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal should first confirm that the catalogued artist matches Hendrik Willem Mesdag's authority identity and that the stated medium agrees with his recorded practice. Marine paintings are most appropriately compared with other marine works, while watercolors, etchings, and lithographs should be considered within their respective categories. When public auction data is available, useful comparisons should align work type and subject and clearly identify sale date and realized price. The supplied source pack includes an Appraisily auction-price page and record-count signal but no fetched lot-level evidence from a major auction house. It therefore does not support a price prediction, rarity claim, market trend, or valuation range.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q474238
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/mesdag-hendrik-willem-18311915
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb133295540
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrik_Willem_Mesdag
- Wikipedia: https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrik_Willem_Mesdag
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrik_Willem_Mesdag
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/hendrik-willem-mesdag/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mesdag-Haverman.jpg