# Mauritz Frederik Hendrik DeHaas artist context and auction value notes

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## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1832-12-12
- Nationality: Dutch, American
- Movements: 19th-century marine painting
- Common media: oil painting, etching, lithography, watercolor, drawing

## About Mauritz Frederik Hendrik DeHaas

Mauritz Frederik Hendrik DeHaas (1832–1895) was a Dutch-American painter, etcher, and watercolorist best known for his marine subjects. Born in Rotterdam on December 12, 1832, he trained in the Netherlands before emigrating to the United States, where he established his career in New York City. DeHaas devoted his practice almost entirely to seascapes, coastal views, and ship portraits, capturing the drama of open water, naval vessels, and harbor life with a technique rooted in the Dutch maritime tradition. He worked across several media including oil, watercolor, etching, and lithography. His brother, W.F. de Haas, was also a painter. Over the course of his career, DeHaas's name appeared in records under many spellings, including Maurice F. H. de Haas and Maurice Frederic Henri de Haas, which reflects the anglicization of Dutch naming conventions in American art circles. He remained active in New York until his death in 1895.

## Common works and media

DeHaas most commonly produced oil on canvas marine paintings depicting ships at sea, coastal scenes, and harbor views. He also created etchings and lithographs of similar maritime subjects, along with watercolor seascapes and preparatory drawings. His works range from small cabinet-size panels to larger exhibition-scale canvases. Ship portraits and naval engagements are recurring themes throughout his output.

## Market and appraisal context

DeHaas's work appears regularly at auction, with a substantial body of 286 recorded lots. His oil paintings of dramatic seascapes and ship subjects tend to attract the strongest interest from collectors of 19th-century American and European marine art. Works on paper, including etchings, lithographs, and watercolors, surface less frequently and generally at more modest price levels. Attribution can be complicated by the many variant spellings of his name across cataloguing systems, so collectors should cross-reference lots against Getty ULAN and RKD records. Condition, provenance, subject drama, and scale are the primary factors influencing appraisal values for his oils.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist identity research from museum, library authority, and scholarly sources with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For this artist, identity data is grounded in the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD), Getty Union List of Artist Names (ULAN), VIAF, and Wikidata.

## Sources

- RKD — Netherlands Institute for Art History: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/34989
- VIAF (OCLC): https://viaf.org/viaf/34320732/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500081561
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6793831
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritz_de_Haas
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr92025916