"biograhy facts and dates of A. Schelfhout, in the Dutch R.K.D. Archive, The Hague"

“Here are 3 drawings that I have made for You. It will be satisfactory, if it will meet your expectation and what it is for . The two landscapes are thoughts, but the one that suggests the moonlight is the castle at Doorenwaart in Gelderland. I also painted a painting of that subject which I enjoyed a lot in Amsterdam”

“You can't sell anything to the museum nowadays. If one presents something now, one is partly rejected because they have no money in cash. Yes Friend, that's how things are going.. .It's going very bad here with the old arts in The Hague., I hardly hear of anything. How are things going in Rotterdam? I believe that also there is not much moving.”

“..and since we are now living in the Summer-time, I don't have a trick to imagine me Winter so strongly that I would be able to paint one .. ..and you must have patience until next winter.”

“..when the terrible storm and high flood of water raged most fearfully, I went to Schevelinge.. ..sea and sky seemed to be one element; at the height where I stood - because the sea had already washed away dunes and stood up to the village – the view was horrible; the wailing of the inhabitants awful. - when arriving home, I immediately put a sketch of all this on paper - but that sketch represented so little of what I had seen on the spot itself.. .. no part turned up itself of which I could make a sketch.. .. will be necessary for me to return to Scheveningen again and to outline those places where the water has raged most violently..”

“many free images of paintings, drawings and prints of A. Schelfhout, in the RijksStudio of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam”

“.. make each a painting that together will form one view, as it were .. .. our paintings together will therefore not become one integrated thing, but only pendants.. .I have taken my drawing from the steps of the Pavilion , viewed over the dunes to The Hague. In the foreground, which is very bare and empty in reality, I have placed some trees.”