Dordrechts Museum

The Dordrechts Museum is one of the oldest art museums in the Netherlands. Located in the picturesque city of Dordrecht, it was founded in 1842 by five of the area’s prominent collectors. The city’s mayor commissioned “View on the Rhine” by local artist Willem de Klerk, which would become the museum’s first acquisition. While the collection spans 600 years, it is renowned for Dutch Golden Age and Baroque works, as well as landscape art and 19th-century paintings, featuring prominent artists such as Aelbert Cuyp and Albert Eckhout, with unique holdings by Dordrecht-born Ary Scheffer, a romantic painter who worked in Paris.

_{Photos courtesy of Dordrechts Museum.}