Petrus Johannes Schotel

The recorded working language is Dutch. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are marine and landscape. Places of work recorded in the authority are Amsterdam. Works named in the authority record are Seascape from the Zeeland Waters, near the Island of Schouwen and Storm op de Zuiderzee voor Medemblik. Work by Petrus Johannes Schotel is recorded in the collections of Städel Museum, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK), Teylers Museum and Amsterdam Museum. Distinctions recorded are Officer of the Order of the Oak Crown.

Schotel was born in Dordrecht. According to the RKD he was the son of Johannes Christiaan Schotel, in whose style he followed. He worked for several years as a drawing teacher at the marine school in Medemblik. He married and his daughter Petronella Elisabeth Schotel became a painter who followed his sister Christina Petronella Schotel, a still life and flower painter. He died, aged 56, in Dresden, Germany. The Schotel Family passed down their artistic talents throughout the generations. The smallest detail such as the signatures on artwork were formatted the same. Schotel signed his artwork with P.J Schotel as did his offspring. Schotel had produced hundreds of various designs over his lifetime and to-date his work is being sold in auction houses internationally, specifically the Netherlands, Denmark and New York.