[From the Community Collection, a public trust in Agincourt, Iowa]
GADEYNE, Jules Julien/Juliaan [1857-1936]
Beach / Sunset / Boats
ca1900
oil on wood panel / 9 3/4 inches by 14 1/4 inches (overall); 5 1/2 by 10.25 inches (image)
Gadeyne — a Flemish artist born at Blankenberge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium — is known primarily for his marine subjects: boats, coastline, dramatic weather conditions. How this tiny work found its way to Agincourt is a lingering question.
Blankenberge is a community a few miles up the coast from Ostend (and just four miles from Brugge), a landscape which might well be represented in this painting.
[See: https://www.genealogieonline.nl/en/genealogie_nuijs_hoogers/I45837.php%5D