Andreas Schelfhout

"Cheerfully and cheerily, I started working once more in giant steps to the second painting by Mr Twent."

"..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."

"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 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…"

".. 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 …"

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

"..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…"

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