Petrus Johannes Schotel

Petrus Johannes Schotel (11 November 1808 – 23 July 1865) was a 19th-century marine painter from the Northern Netherlands.

Storm on the Zuiderzee near Medemblik, 1840, collection Teylers Museum

Biography

Schotel was born in Dordrecht. According to the RKD he was the son of Johannes Christiaan Schotel, in whose style he followed.[1] He worked for several years as a drawing teacher at the marine school in Medemblik.[1] 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.

References
  1. Petrus Johannes Schotel in the RKD


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