People looking at a Spanish galley and an English ship foundering in heavy weather off a mountainous coastline with a Spanish fortress

Oil on panel : 59,3 X 86,1 cm

Signed lower right “B Peeters”

(the B must be a J that has been changed into a B to make the painting pass for a Bonaventura Peeters)

Frame : 86,3 X 113,2 cm

 

The attribution to Jan Peeters I has already been confirmed in 2015 by Laurens Schoenmaker from the RKD, The Hague. 

Our painting is known at the RKD under Nr. 269136.

 

Published as by Bonaventura Peeters I by Jan Blanc in 2016 in his article in the Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art (Vol. 8.2) entitled ‘Sensible Natures: Allart van Everdingen and the tradition of sublime landscape in 17th century Dutch Painting’, Fig 7.