Has Scheveningen got the most painted shore in world?

Just this morning I finally realised that the shore of the Dutch resort of Scheveningen – really a suburb of The Hague – has been depicted in an amazing number of treasured paintings by a remarkable group of artists. We’re talking van der Velde II, Van Gogh, Anton Mauve and many more…

I’m not obsessed with the place, you understand, it’s simply that I remember going there as a child and still today have a painting of the beach on my wall. Then today a painting popped up on my Facebook that made me wonder what else might be waiting behind the search engines. I think of it as an open, and rather inhospitable beach for boats and ships, but to my amazement, this is what I found. Each image links to a web page that explains who painted it, and more. Google and Wikipedia will find you many more, of course.

The very modest painting that hangs on my own wall is here.