Seascape on the Beach at Scheveningen

Willem van Diest

c. 1629

oil on panel

Rijksmuseum

A busy seascape depicts numerous sailing vessels on a choppy sea, with a sandy shoreline populated by figures and docked boats in the background. …; from Jonkheer Jacob Eduard van Heemskerck van Beest (1828-1894), Utrecht, The Hague and Dalfsen, fl. 20,000, to the Nederlandsch Museum voor Geschiedenis en Kunst, The Hague (inv. no. 3921), with the rest of his collection, 1878; transferred to the museum, as Jeronimus van Diest ?, March 1887; on loan to the Nederlandsch Scheepvaart Museum, Amsterdam, October 1921-January 1931