PU8467

A small pink close hauled in a strong breeze off a rocky shore Long Caption: Vitringa was a lawyer and possibly a poet, as well as being an artist (his brother was a leading Dutch theologian). As he was born and spent his early life in Friesland in the remote north of Holland before moving to Alkmaar, it is not known who might have trained Vitringa as a marine painter, although his paintings and this drawing of a pink and a ship off a rocky coast, suggest a link with Ludolf Backhuysen. The drawing is signed and dated 1702. Credit line: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London Object: PAD8467 Artist: Wigerus Vitringa Date: 1702 Medium: wash; watercolour; pen; ink; graphite Size: 146 mm x 195 mm Click here to buy a bespoke print of this image.