BHC1137

A Dutch boeier in a fresh breeze Long Caption: A boeier flying the Dutch flag is portrayed apparently setting her sprit in a fresh breeze, with a variety of shipping visible beyond to left and right. A boeier is a small Dutch sprit-rigged seagoing merchant vessel with a deep sail and with a curved spoon bow, and the painter has carefully detailed the rigging. Although Dutch craft have been portrayed, it may be an English port. Credit line: © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London Object: BHC1137 Artist: George Chambers, Senior Date: 1831 Medium: oil on canvas Size: 870 mm x 1340 mm Click here to buy a bespoke print of this image.