MAKE A MEME View Large Image Bonaventura Peeters (I) - Dutch Indiamen Passing Herring Busses.jpg Artwork Creator Bonaventura Peeters I The increasing affluence of the Dutch merchant classes led to a demand for such small-scale cabinet pictures to hang in domestic ...
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Keywords: Bonaventura Peeters (I) - Dutch Indiamen Passing Herring Busses.jpg Artwork Creator Bonaventura Peeters I The increasing affluence of the Dutch merchant classes led to a demand for such small-scale cabinet pictures to hang in domestic interiors This painting of Dutch Indiamen passing herring busses though might not have strong Christian overtones but rather exemplifies the celebration of the sources of wealth in the northern Netherlands In this portrait format the artist portrays the busy coastal waters of the North Sea with its fresh windy and moist atmosphere Across the low horizon various vessels can be seen but most prominently an Indiaman is setting sail in the middle ground possibly to go out on one of the Dutch trading routes and a herring buss has cast out her net across the choppy and theatrically lit waves in the foreground century 17 oil canvas cm 76 57 Institution National Maritime Museum London object history credit line accession number BHC0762 http //collections rmg co uk/collections/objects/12254 html PD-old-100 Paintings by Bonaventura Peeters I in the National Maritime Museum London 17th-century sailing ships in paintings
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