Maurits Frederik Hendrik De Haas

Background

De Haas was born on the 12th of December, 1832 in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Education

De Haas studied art in the Rotterdam Academy and at The Hague, under Bosboom and Louis Meyer, and in 1851–1852 in London, following the English water-colourists of the day.

Career

In 1857 Mauritz 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 removed to New York city.

He became an associate of the National Academy in 1863, and exhibited annually in the academy, and in 1866 he was one of the founders of the American Society of Painters in Water Colors.

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 favourite subjects were storm and wreck, wind and heavy surf, and less often moonlight on the coasts of Holland, of Jersey, of New England, and of Long Island, and on the English Channel.

Achievements

• De Haas got his reputation as a painter of the coastal scenes.

Membership

He as an Associate of the National Academy.

Connections

Brother:

William Frederick de Haas

Painter. He imigrated to New York in 1854.