The Amsterdam Four-Master ‘De Hollandse Tuyn’ and Other Ships on their Return from Brazil under the Command of Paulus van Caerden

The Amsterdam Four-Master ‘De Hollandse Tuyn’ and Other Ships on their Return from Brazil under the Command of Paulus van Caerden

De Amsterdamse viermaster 'De Hollandse Tuyn' en andere schepen bij het binnenvaren van het IJ na terugkeer uit Brazilië onder bevel van Paulus van Caerden

SK-A-1361

signature, top right, on a flag: ‘Vroom’

The return of Paulus van Caerden from Brazil, 1605, by Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom, early 17th century. Since the late 16th century, as the war with Spain continued, Dutch trade in the Atlantic had increasingly gone hand-in-hand with force of arms. Privateering and plunder of overseas possessions were tried and trusted methods. Admiral Paulus van Caerden commanded a fleet that harried the Brazilian coast. In the bay of Salvador (Bahia) he captured 3,000 cases of sugar. Vroom was commissioned for this painting by the Amsterdam Admiralty. In the foreground Van Caerden is welcomed back, having been brought ashore by barge. The flag ship, the Hollandsche Tuyn, is depicted in the centre. Not long after, this massive vessel was sold off, being unable to negotiate the shallows of the Zuiderzee.

Documentatiemap Schilderijen: aantekeningen R. van Luttervelt (voor 1963).

painter: Hendrik Cornelisz. Vroom

c. 1605 - c. 1640

olieverf op doek

• weight 60 kg
• height 144 cm x width 279 cm
• depth 14 cm

Public domain

...; recorded in East India House, Amsterdam in the mid-19th century;{Van Luttervelt 1957b.}...; transferred to the museum from the Nederlandsch Museum voor Geschiedenis en Kunst, The Hague, 1887

Documentatiemap Schilderijen: aantekeningen R. van Luttervelt (voor 1963).

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