Storm at Wellington Heads

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Storm at Wellington Heads

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Te Papa Collections Online

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This essay originally appeared in New Zealand Art at Te Papa (Te Papa Press, 2018). When he arrived in Christchurch in June 1890 Petrus van der Velden was a mature exponent of the late nineteenth-century Dutch romantic realist school of painting, commonly known as the Hague School. He was naturally attracted to sombre subject matter in landscape, portrait and genre studies. Van der Velden is best known for his paintings of the Ōtira Gorge region, deep in the Southern Alps, which he visited f...

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Image

Date created

circa 1908

Creator

Petrus van der Velden

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/38354

Related subjects

Landscapes (Representations) / Storms / Seascapes / Horses / Carts & wagons / Gulls / People / Ships / Clouds / Wellington (New Zealand) / oil paint / canvas / paintings / Romantic / Realist / Wellington

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