Johan Hendrik Louis Meijer (9 March 1809 – 31 March 1866) was a Dutch painter, etcher, lithographer, and draftsman. He painted in the Romantic tradition and is best known for his seascapes. Meijer was born on 9 March 1809 in Amsterdam in the Kingdom of Holland (the present-day Netherlands). He studied under Pieter Westenberg and Jan Willem Pieneman, and lived in Deventer, from 1841 in Paris and then in The Hague. Matthijs Maris was a pupil of Meijer's, beginning in 1854. Meijer died on 31 March… Read more...