Panorama Mesdag

Hendrik Willem Mesdag (23 February 1831 – 10 July 1915)

He was a Dutch marine painter.

In 1880 he received a commission from a Belgian company to paint a panorama giving a view over the village of Scheveningen on the North Sea coast near The Hague. This is the enormous painting, Panorama Mesdag.

This is a huge painting — 14 m high and 120 m around — the puzzle is a lot smaller at 15cm x 10cm. It is just a part of the entire panorama. It has 150 pieces and as you can imagine, the pieces are very small. Even though the puzzle only covers a part of the panorama, its size means that there is a lot of detail in a small area.