(Rotterdam 1652- 1733)
Shipping off Vlissingen
Pen painting on panel, 36.5 x 49.5 cm
Monogrammed on the barrel lower right : CM
Provenance: Austria, private collection
Literature: E.H.H. Archibald, Dictionary of Sea Painters, 1980, Woodbridge, Suffolk, GB; F. Lammertse, ‘“Watmen met een penne doen can“; over penschilderijen met een maritieme voorstelling’, in: J. Kelch e.a. Lof der zeevaart. De Hollandse zeeschilders van de 17e eeuw, Rotterdam 1996, pp. 45-58.; J.H. van den Berge, ‘Een incompleet Bouwmeestertableau’, Den Spiegel 18 (2000), no. 2, pp. 15-19 ;E. Löffler, ‘Getekend op doek of paneel: het penschilderij’, Desipientia 19 (2012), no. 1, pp. 23-26
Collections: Netherlands, Rotterdam, Historisch Museum; Greenwich, National Maritime Museum, United Kingdom; Salem, Peabody Museum, United States.
Cornelis Bouwmeester was the last painter who practised the art of making pen paintings. Pen paintings are actually pen and brush drawings on a specially prepared carrier such as canvas, panel or parchment. Cornelisz Bouwmeester belonged to a group of pen painters of which the most widely known are Willem van de Velde the Elder, Ludolf Backhuysen, and the brilliant Caspar van den Bos who deceased at the age of 22.
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