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East Indiamen off a Coast
Also titled Oost-Indiëvaarders voor de kust
Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom (Haarlem, ca. –1640)
c. 1600 - c. 1630
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- outer size: depth 4.5 cm (support incl. frame)
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of J.W. IJzerman, The Hague
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
About this work
Departure of the fleet of Jacob van Neck, 1598 by Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom, 1599. After a fourteen-month voyage to Asia, in July 1599 Van Neck returned with a valuable cargo (mainly spices) to Amsterdam. It was the first successful Dutch trading expedition to the Indonesian archipelago. The voyage was financed by a group of Amsterdam merchants who combined to back the venture. Their example was soon emulated. Companies were formed in several cities. This was followed by the foundation of an umbrella enterprise. To be able to compete more effectively with foreign rivals, the grand pensionary, Johan van Oldenbarnevelt proposed that the different companies unite to form the Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie (Dutch East India Company or VOC) which was duly founded in 1602.
