Publishing group VNU recently donated the painting River Landscape (1842) by Willem Roelofs to the Gemeentemuseum. This gift prompted the museum to organize an exhibition this summer of early works by

Hague School paintings are full of the traditional beauties of Holland: grazing cattle, windmills and billowing white clouds. Weissenbruch, Mesdag, Gabriël, Mauve and other Hague School painters went

Hendrik Willem Mesdag (1831-1915) was a leading member of the Hague School and the only one of that group to specialise in painting seascapes. As part of the Mesdag Year, this exhibition at the