[Netherlands] Augustus Stellingwerf, eerste l. Admir.l van Frieslandt.
Lodewyck vander Helst pinx. A Blotelingh sculpsit. [n.d., c.1667.] Engraving. Sheet 465 x 385mm (18¼ x 11½"). Trimmed to plate. Slight foxing and crease in centre (not visible from front) A posthumous portrait of Auke Stellingwerf (1635-65), a Dutch admiral who died commanding a squadron in the battle of Lowestoft, during the Second Anglo-Dutch War. He is shown half-length, his baton in his right hand, leaning on a cannon, the battle raging behind him. From Collection of Francois Louisberg 1804 in verso in ink.
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