FAMILY MUSEUM
Miss Elizabeth ten Bruggen Cate, treasurer of the International Council of Women, is also the financial director of a family company which owns an art museum in The Hague. The Mesdag Museum houses the paintings of Hendrik Willem Mesdag (1831 to 1915). Its most famous work is the Mesdag Panorama, a round-the-room painting of the little fishing village of Schevening-en as it appeared in 1888. “Mesdag, my great uncle, was a very wellknown seascape painter,” Miss ten Bruggen Cate said.
Visitors could view the panorama from a plai-
form in the museum. It gave the impression of being upon a sand dune with the village on one side and the sea on the other. “You can stand on the same dune today. The village is now a seaside resort. Some of the buildings have changed, but some shown in the painting are still there,” she said. “We have 150,000 people come each year to see the panorama.” Miss ten Bruggen Cate said the 33 shares in the museum which her uncle had given to his nephews and nieces were still in the family—passed from “father to son.”
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30561, 2 October 1964, Page 2
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