Johannes Christiaan Schotel

Place: Dordrecht

Born: 1787

Death: 1838

Biography:

Johannes Christiaan Schotel was a 19th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands known for his marines and artwork. Talent was handed down by generation to the next throughout the Schotel family producing numerous talented artists. Schotel was born and died in Dordrecht. According to the RKD he was the pupil of Adriaan Meulemans, Martinus Schouman, Abraham van Strij, and Jacob van Strij. He was a member of the Dordrecht artist's society Pictura and was the father of Petrus Johannes Schotel. Schotel had left a legacy which remains in Dordecht to date, inside the Dordecht museum and throughout the world. He was a talented sailor and was admired for his depiction of the sea, specifically his ability to capture effects of light. Near to the end of his life he travelled to France and Belgium. The 20th century art historian Pieter Scheen notes that J.C Schotel produced 214 paintings and around 275 drawings and watercolours. Paintings of the elder Schotel are in the museums of Amsterdam, Dordecht, Haarlem, Otterlo and Rotterdam, as well as in Hannover, Munich.