Mauritz de Haas

The field of work recorded is painting. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are marine. Places of work recorded in the authority are Rotterdam, New York City and Netherlands. Work by Mauritz de Haas is recorded in the collections of Stadsarchief Rotterdam, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, New York Historical, The Historic New Orleans Collection and Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art.

• Name — Maurits Frederik Hendrik de Haas • Birthplace — Rotterdam, Netherlands • Place of death — New York City, US • Known for — Painting • Movement — Realism • Illustration — Hudson River Under Moonlight • Illustration — Farragut's Fleet passing the Forts below New Orleans

De Haas was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands. He studied art at the Rotterdam Academy and at The Hague, under Johannes Bosboom and Louis Meyer, and in 1851-1852 in London, following the English watercolourists of the day. In 1857 he received an artist's commission in the Dutch Navy, but in 1859, under the patronage of August Belmont, who had recently been minister of the United States at The Hague, he resigned and moved to New York City. He became an associate of the National Academy in 1863 and an academician in 1867, and exhibited annually in the academy, and in 1866 he was one of the founders of the American Society of Painters in Water Colors. He died in New York City. His Farragut Passing the Forts at the Battle of New Orleans and The Rapids above Niagara, which were exhibited at the Paris Exposition of 1878, were his best known but not his most typical works, for his favorite subjects were storm and wreck, wind and heavy surf, and less often moonlight on the coasts of Holland, of Jersey, of New England, Long Island, the English Channel and of Grand Manan island in the Bay of Fundy. His brother Willem Frederik de Haas (1830–1880) was also a marine painter.

• Rocky Coast (unknown) • Sunset off the Needles, 1870; St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, St. Johnsbury, Vermont • Afternoon on Saco Bay, Coast of Maine, 1874 • Hudson River Under Moonlight, 1876 • Fishing Boats at Anchor, 1886

He also worked under the name Haas, Mauritz Frederik Hendrick de. The authorities additionally record the headings Maurits Frederik Hendrik de Haas, Mauritz Frederick Hendrick De Hass, Mauritz Frederik Hendrick de Haas, M. H. de Haas and Mauritz Frederik Hendrik De Haas.