Allegory on the Dutch Raid on the Medway (1667), with a Portrait of Cornelis de Witt

About this artwork

height 104 cm x width 153.5 cm

Art Historical Context

Cornelis Bisschop's *Allegory on the Dutch on the Medway (7), with a Portrait Cornelis de Witt*1668) is a striking oil-on-canvas painting measuring 104 cm high by 153.5 cm wide, housed in the Rijksmuseum Created just a year after the audacious Dutch naval victory during the Second Anglo-D War, this work blends historical commemoration with symbolic allegory. Bisschop, a Dutch Golden Age artist renowned for his detailed portraits and genre scenes influenced by Rembrandt, captures the of the Dutch fleet's surprise attack on England's Chatham docks—a humiliating defeat for the Royal Navy that sho...