Dutch shipping in light breezes off Vlissingen

Hoogerheyden was himself a sailor, before becoming a respected Dutch marine artist of the second half of the eighteenth and first years of the nineteenth centuries. He spent most of his life in Middelburg, the provincial capital of Zeeland, and many of his works depict harbour scenes of the region around that city. He is known on occasion to have collaborated with the Dutch artist J. Schwartzenbach and a picture of theirs is in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.