The Dutchman by Frederick Gottwald, 1904
Cleveland Museum of Art · wikidata.org
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Erisava: Was this an actual fisherman, or someone paid to dress the part?
I couldn't dig up much about this specific painting, but plenty of American painters made trips to the Netherlands around this time just to paint local fishermen in their work clothes - it was a popular thing to go do.
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Those wooden clogs are doing a lot of the storytelling here.