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Over a 3Oyear period the Hague painter Hendrik Willem Mesdag 18311915 purchased over 800 works of art. The outcome of this feverisch activity can still be found in the museum he founded in The Hague. Built by Mesdag 1887 as an annex to his house and studio in order to accomodate his growing collection it was donated to the Dutch state in 19O3 together with its contents of more than 36O paintings and drawings. Roughly half works where by his contemporaries of the Hague School whille most of the rest are by artists of the School of Barbizon and French Realists 12 Corots 25 Daubinys 7 Millets 7 Courbets Troyon Decamps. It has been hailed as the most important Barbizon collection outside France. Being a Painters choice the collection is idiosyncratic in its preference for sketchy paintings that show the artists engaged in the process of creation. Over a 3Oyear period the Hague painter Hendrik Willem Mesdag 18311915 purchased over 800 works of art. The outcome of this feverisch activity can still be found in the museum he founded in The Hague. Built by Mesdag 1887 as an annex to his house and studio in order to accomodate his growing collection it was donated to the Dutch state in 19O3 together with its contents of more than 36O paintings and drawings. Roughly half works where by his contemporaries of the Hague School whille most of the rest are by artists of the School of Barbizon and French Realists 12 Corots 25 Daubinys 7 Millets 7 Courbets Troyon Decamps. It has been hailed as the most important Barbizon collection outside France. Being a Painters choice the collection is idiosyncratic in its preference for sketchy paintings that show the artists engaged in the process of creation. «
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