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| Keywords: Bonaventura Peeters (I) - Sunlight on a Stormy Sea.jpg Artwork Creator Bonaventura Peeters I A ship is running before the wind in port-broadside view in a rough sea She sails under fore-course and lateen mizzen with figures visible on the deck and the main yard sent down to the gunwale The vessel is almost engulfed by the turbulent undulating waves The painting is broadly treated in the Dutch realist style While the grey palette evokes an impression of a storm However both the ship and a bold stretch of water around it are illuminated fiercely by the rays of the sun which fall onto the surface of the sea from the right the same direction as the wind In the distance on the left the soft outline of another wallowing ship is visible In the left foreground a wooden spar floats above the churning water While on the right two dolphins plough through the sea towards a barely concealed rock The absence of any visible land the rolling sky and murky water contribute towards the impression of turmoil and the powerlessness of the ships Their powerlessness contrasts with the potency of the natural elements This work may have been the painting lent by Sir Bruce Ingram as �Jan Porcellis � to an exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1952 �3 That work titled �A Stormy Sea � was apparently catalogued incorrectly as bearing a date of 1631 which is not visible in the present work At an unknown later date the painting was reattributed by Eric Palmer to Julius Porcellis and as such entered the Museum �s collection An attribution to Bonaventura Peeters is much more tenable especially if one compares it to Peeters � �Dutch Ferry Boats in a Fresh Breeze � early 1640s oil oak panel cm 17 7 24 1 Institution National Maritime Museum London object history credit line accession number BHC0804 http //collections rmg co uk/collections/objects/12296 html PD-old-100 Paintings by Bonaventura Peeters I in the National Maritime Museum London 1640s paintings in the United Kingdom 17th-century sailing ships in paintings 17th-century oil on panel paintings in the United Kingdom | ||||
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