Launching VOC ship  by Reinier Vinkeles
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Launching VOC ship 1768

Reinier Vinkeles

Print
38 ⨯ 29 cm
€ 975

Inter-Antiquariaat Mefferdt & De Jonge

  • About the artwork

    TEWATERLATING AT VOC WERF AMSTERDAM "Illustration of the completion of the corner ship The Sun, in the presence of Their Serene and Royal Highnesses; at the lumberyard of the E.O.I. Maatschappij, the 2nd of June 1768"? Copper engraving made by Reinier Vinkeles in 1768 and published by Johannes Smit. Later hand-coloured. Dim. 388 x 292 mm. The IJ with the East India Shipyard and the Zeemagazijn. Depicted is the launch of the corner ship De Zon, during the visit of Prince Willem V and Princess Wilhelmina of Prussia to Amsterdam. Hook ship De Zon, with a length of 110 feet and a crew of between 157 and 196, was commissioned by the VOC in 1768 for voyages between Texel and the Cape of Good Hope. The first journey was under the command of skipper Daniel van de Bogaard; later voyages took place under the command of Andries Hansen. The ship was laid up in 1782. Price: Euro 975,-

  • About the artist

    Reinier Vinkeles (Amsterdam, June 19, 1741 – Amsterdam, January 30, 1816) was a Dutch draftsman, illustrator and engraver.

    Vinkeles started as an apprentice at Jan Punt. He joined the Amsterdam City Drawing Academy in 1762 and became one of its directors in 1765. Another director was the architect Jacob Otten Husly. In the same year he traveled to Brabant with Jurriaen Andriessen and Izaak Schmidt.

    In 1770 Vinkeles left for Paris, where he studied with Jacques-Philippe Le Bas and met the Dutch artists Hermanus Numan and Izaak de Wit. A year later, Vinkeles returned permanently to Amsterdam and began producing countless stage and book illustrations, historical prints, topographical scenes, portrait engravings, painting reproductions, and so on. That same year he was invited by Catherine the Great of Russia to become director of the Saint Petersburg Art Academy, but declined.

    Vinkeles' style was quite baroque in the beginning, later it tended towards classicism and then became more natural again. His enormous productivity - Vinkeles' oeuvre is estimated at around 2,500 prints - sometimes led to superficiality, but his best work (especially his earlier ones) is highly regarded.

    His later work for publications such as Kok's Vaderlandsch Dictionary, the Vervolg van Wagenaar and other such works, as well as his many cityscapes and landscapes, are also of historical importance. His work can be found in the collection of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, among others.

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