Petrus Johannes Schotel

Place: Dordrecht

Born: 1808

Death: 1865

Biography:

Petrus Johannes Schotel (11 November 1808 – 23 July 1865) was a 19th-century marine painter from Northern Netherlands. He was born in Dordrecht and was the son of Johannes Christiaan Schotel, in whose style he followed. He worked for several years as a drawing teacher at the marine school in Medemblik. He married and his daughter Petronella Elisabeth Schotel became a painter who followed his sister Christina Petronella Schotel, a still life and flower painter. He died, aged 56, in Dresden, Germany.