Frederik Hendrik Kaemmerer

He was born in The Hague and began his artistic studies at the Royal Academy of Art with Salomon Verveer, who taught in the Romantic tradition.

In 1865, attracted by new trends in art, he went to Paris and enrolled at the Académie des Beaux-Arts, where he studied with Jean-Léon Gérôme and switched to a more Academic style.

[1] For a time, he specialized in French genre scenes set in the 18th century, featuring elegant ladies with courteous men.

[2] He established a studio in Paris and became a client of Goupil & Cie, but frequently returned to The Hague with friends and would stay at a seaside hotel in Scheveningen.

It was during these stays that he began his transition to Impressionism; inspired by the effects of sunlight on the water and the fleeting changes of light and shadow on the sand.