A View of the Harbour, Rotterdam

The Dutch painter Johan Barthold Jongkind spent most of his life in France, first as a protégé of the Prince of Orange and later as an independent artist. In 1855, disillusioned by the scant appreciation of his work at the Paris Salon and harassed by creditors, he abandoned the French capital and returned to his country of birth for a five-year period. Taking up residence in the port city of …