Ships In Distress Off A Rocky Coast
Ships In Distress Off A Rocky Coast c1667 by German Born Dutch Painter Ludolf Bakhuizen (1630 – 1708), draughtman, calligarapher and printmaker; Bakhuysen was born in Germany and became the leading Dutch painter of maritime subjects after Willem van de Velde the Elder and Younger left for England in 1672. He was part of the Dutch Golden Are and Baroque Periods.
A powerful scene with three ships in serious trouble near the rocky shoreline during a ranging storm, with one ship already sunk and another getting ready to join its fate in a watery grave as its mast has collapsed on the deck of the ship and is listing in the waves.
Ships In Distress Off A Rocky Coast is a retouched digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image that is available online as a rolled print.
Info Below From Wikipedia.org
Ludolf Bakhuizen was born in Emden, East Frisia, and came to Amsterdam in about 1650, working as a merchant’s clerk and a calligrapher.
He discovered so strong a genius for painting that he relinquished the business and devoted himself to art from the late 1650s, initially in pen drawings.
He studied first under Allart van Everdingen and then under Hendrik Dubbels, two eminent masters of the time, and soon became celebrated for his sea-pieces, which often had rough seas.
He was an ardent student of nature, and frequently exposed himself on the sea in an open boat in order to study the effects of storms.
His compositions, which are numerous, are nearly all variations of one subject, the sea, and in a style peculiarly his own, marked by intense realism or faithful imitation of nature.
In his later years Bakhuizen employed his skills in etching; he also painted a few examples each of several other genres of painting, such as portraits, landscapes and genre paintings.
During his life Bakhuizen was visited by Cosimo III de’ Medici, Peter the Great and also worked for various German princes. In 1699 he opened a gallery on the top floor of the famous Amsterdam town hall. After a visit to England he died in Amsterdam on 17 Mbudzi 1708.
Bakhuizen painted portraits of his large circle of friends. These are of lesser artistic value but provide an insight into his good relations with contemporary scholars and literary figures.
