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The Fleet Leaving the Port of Vlissingen, 1804
Also titled De vloot verlaat de haven van Vlissingen, 1804
Engel Hoogerheyden (Middelburg, 1740–1809)
1804 - 1805
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- grisaille
- Dimensions
- depth 3 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
Embarkation and departure of the fleet at Flushing harbour by E. van Hoogerheyden and J. Schwartzenbach, c. 1805. France and the Batavian Republic, as the country was known from 1795 to 1806, were allies. In 1804 a large Dutch naval fleet sailed to the harbour of Boulogne-sur-Mer, in North France. They were earmarked for the French emperor Napoleon's plans to invade the British Isles. The invasion never took place.
