Bonaventura Peeters (Antwerp 1614-1652 Hoboken)

This painting is one of several works that Bonaventura Peeters showing the Dutch harbor at Vlissingen. On the horizon in the distance are the St. Jacobstoren, the Gevangentoren, the Stadhuis, and the Stadsmolen. The bustling port of Vlissingen, base for the Dutch East India Company, is the subject of at least three other painted compositions by Peeters, including a picture in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Strasbourg (inv. 431, wrongly described as depicting Hoorn). It was also the only harbor in the Northern Netherlands to be visited by dolphins, here visible at left.