Herman Johannes van der Weele (13 January 1852, Middelburg – 2 December 1930, The Hague) was a Dutch painter of the second generation of the Hague School. He is the father of Dutch entomologist Herman Willem van der Weele (1879–1910).
Van der Weele lived and worked initially in Middelburg, where he was a special inspector of the sea and harbor works in Zeeland. When he was 20 he moved to The Hague and was a student of the Art Academy in The Hague. He expected advice from Anton Mauve and Johannes Bosboom.
Mauve’s have an effect on can be detected in van der Weele’s paintings. His compositions have the thesame simplicity and his choices of subjects are extremely much with those of Mauve. He painted flocks of sheep, sheep barns, stable interiors, meadows next cows, sand drifts, foresters next horses, farmers plowing following an ox team, milkmaids tending cows, street scenes considering coaches, and sand quarries. Van der Weele occasionally worked in Limburg and Drente, but he usually spent his summers just about Nunspeet in the Veluwe. Van der Weele was a near friend of George Hendrik Breitner, who dedicated his ‘Self-portrait With Lorgnette’ to van der Weele.
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