Frederik Hendrik Kaemmerer travelled to Scheveningen in the company of his friend, the painter David Adolphe Constant Artz, in the spring of 1871. Also a painter, Josef Israëls describes the fascination that the fashionable bathers exerted on the artists in the yearbook “Die Haghe”:
“There can be no better training for a painter than these figures who reveal themselves and move out in the open: elegantly dressed ladies, pastors with long coats and stockings, farmers from the nearby villages, lov...
Signatur und Datierung: Scheveningen. Mai 71, unten links
Mayken Jonkmann: Frederik Hendrik Kaemmerer. L’Enfant Chérie du Marché et de l’Art, in: Les Hollandais à Paris 1789–1914, Ausst.-Kat. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Petit Palais Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, in Zusammenarbeit mit Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis, Den Haag, Paris 2017, S. 131–147.