Taco Mesdag
Illustration — Taco Mesdag • Illustration — Dolmen (Hunebed D15) near Taarlo by Taco Mesdag Taco Mesdag (Groningen, 21 September 1829Den Haag, 4 August 1902) was a Dutch banker and painter. Mesdag, son of the banker Klaas Mesdag and Johanna Willemina, worked with his younger brother Henry in the banking business of his family. Like his brother Hendrik Mesdag, he eventually also chose to paint as a profession.
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Taco Mesdag
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- Born
- 1829 · Groningen.
- Died
- 1902 · The Hague.
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- Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Occupation
- painter
- Movements
- Hague School
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Illustration — Taco Mesdag • Illustration — Dolmen (Hunebed D15) near Taarlo by Taco Mesdag Taco Mesdag (Groningen, 21 September 1829Den Haag, 4 August 1902) was a Dutch banker and painter. Mesdag, son of the banker Klaas Mesdag and Johanna Willemina, worked with his younger brother Henry in the banking business of his family. Like his brother Hendrik Mesdag, he eventually also chose to paint as a profession.
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Born at Groningen in 1829, died in The Hague in 1902.
Work by Taco Mesdag is recorded in the collections of Groninger Museum, Royal Collections of the Netherlands, Kunstmuseum Den Haag, Drents Museum and The Mesdag Collection.
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- 1.Ontdek schilder, tekenaar, aquarellist Taco Mesdag. rkd.nl.
- 2.Gesina van Calcar. In: Pieter A. Scheen: Lexicon Nederlandse Beeldende Kunstenaars 1750–1950
- 3.Schilderes Geesje van Calcar. Beroemdheid uit Hoogezand. In: De Regiokrant, Wochenzeitung für die Veenkoloniën in Groningen, vom 13. November 2002, auf der Seite www.mesdagvancalcar.nl. Abgerufen am 29. Juli 2023
- 4.Taco Mesdag (1829 - 1902) – VeryImportantLot. veryimportantlot.com.
- 5.Geesje Mesdag-van Calcar. Biografische Daten und Werke im Niederländischen Institut für Kunstgeschichte (niederländisch)
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