Born in Amsterdam, Louis Meyer moved to Paris at the age of 18 to study for three years after initial training at the academy there. Initially active as a landscape painter, he specialized in marine painting after a renewed stay in Paris and a trip across the Mediterranean. Based in The Hague from 1847, Meyer developed into the most important marine painter of the Dutch Romantic period. The Parisian magazine L'Artiste reported about him at the time: "Louis Meyer is recognized as one of the best marine painters living at the time. He is a naturalized Dutchman who is French by talent; he also has the severe realism of Backhuysen and the vivid imagination of Vernet." (L'Artiste, 1845, p. 35) The works of Meyer, who was awarded many medals and...