[1] He studied under George Pieter Westenberg and Jan Willem Pieneman, and lived in Deventer, from 1841 in Paris and then in The Hague.

[1] Meijer received his first training in painting from Westenberg and then continued his studies under JW Pieneman .

It was there that he first occupied himself with the profession of sea painting following the shipwreck of the ZM steamship onde Lucipara, with the happy result that he devoted himself entirely to it.

It was natural that the Dutch beaches and the harbors along the Northern and Mediterranean seas were the grounds where he gathered for the excellent works of art which decorated exhibitions and cabinets.

He received a gold medal for the first painting, the latter purchased by the Museum in Puy de Dôme.

about John HL Meyer [p. 797] Amsterdam some fishermen from his brush at the rising sun on the Flemish coast .

Kramm lists the following of his principal paintings, which were to be used for a fixed purpose: Le Chien de terre neuve, purchased by King Louis Philips .

Since 1848 he settled in The Hague, which city he left only at the end of his life and temporarily to make many journeys in France, England and Paris, the Spanish coast, and a stay of several months in Russia.