Petrus Johannes Schotel

Petrus Johannes Schotel (11 November 1808 – 23 July 1865) was a 19th-century marine painter from the Netherlands.

According to the RKD he was the son of Johannes Christiaan Schotel, in whose style he followed.

[1] He worked for several years as a drawing teacher at the marine school in Medemblik.

The Schotel Family passed down their artistic talents throughout the generations.

Schotel had produced hundreds of various designs over his lifetime and to-date his work is being sold in auction houses internationally, specifically the Netherlands, Denmark and New York.

Portret van Petrus Johannes Schotel, RP-P-1909-1009
Storm on the Zuiderzee near Medemblik , 1840, collection Teylers Museum