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The Man-of-War Brielle on the River Maas off Rotterdam
Also titled Het oorlogsschip Brielle op de Maas voor Rotterdam
Ludolf Bakhuysen (Emden, 1631–1708)
1689
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 12.5 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
In 1688 this ship carried Prince William III to England to drive the Catholic King James II from power and to safeguard the Protestant faith. The Latin inscription on the red flag translates as ‘for faith and freedom’. Bakhuysen painted this picture in 1689, the year in which William III and Mary Stuart were crowned king and queen regnant of England.
