ABSTRACT
As we have seen, marine painting was consistently represented in the Tentoonstelling van Levende Meesters. This allowed art critics to follow the development of the genre in detail. Of the 110 marine painters, 77 submitted their works to the exhibitions in Amsterdam and The Hague, the most important art hubs of the country at that time, and Rotterdam. The majority of nineteenth-century marine painters thus participated in this exhibition circuit. In the period from 1810 to 1899, the average proportion of their work was 4.5 per cent of the total entries. 1 Despite this small percentage, marine painting always received attention. Almost half of the exhibiting marine painters, 37 out of 77, were mentioned in the reviews (see: Reference List of Marine Painters). 2
