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| Keywords: Vromm Hendrick Cornelisz A Castle with a Dutch Ship Sailing Nearby.jpg Artwork Creator Hendrik Cornelisz Vroom This painting shows a Dutch ship on calm waters The ship is moving through a channel towing a boat The deck is full of figures all facing the bow of the ship The vessel is depicted in port-bow view as if about to sail past the spectator displaying its minutely observed busy life on deck It is flying the Dutch flag from the mainmast and a red flag with a device in gold at the stern The view stretches to the horizon suffused by light shimmering through the thin layer of clouds In the distance the scene is flanked on either side by mountainous shores crowned by a large medieval castle on the right Although the high rocks topped by a castle are not intended to be topographically correct they are a motif used in Flemish landscape art which Vroom adopted into his marine work 1626 oil panel cm 38 1 59 7 Institution National Maritime Museum London object history credit line accession number BHC0726 http //www nmm ac uk/collections/explore/object cfm ID BHC0726 National Maritime Museum Greenwich London PD-old-100 Hendrik Cornelisz Vroom Paintings in the National Maritime Museum London 17th-century sailing ships in paintings Sailing ships of the Netherlands Ships under sail 1620s paintings in the United Kingdom 1620s ships Paintings of castles castles in art 17th-century oil on panel paintings in the United Kingdom | ||||
