Career
He painted in the Romantic tradition and is best known for his seascapes. Meijer was born on 9 March 1809 in Amsterdam in the Kingdom of Holland (the present-day Netherlands). He studied under Pieter Westenberg and January Willem Pieneman, and lived in Deventer, from 1841 in Paris and then in The Hague.
Matthijs Maris was a pupil of Meijer"s, beginning in 1854.
Meijer died on 31 March 1866, at the age of 57, in Utrecht in the Netherlands.