Lot Essay
This previously unrecorded drawing is closely related to the drawings by Hendrik Vroom and his workshop, in which the artist's sons Cornelis and Frederick participated.
The present drawing is close in style and composition to a sheet in the Rijksprentenkabinet, Amsterdam, G. Keys, Cornelis Vroom, Marine and Landscape Artist, Alpen aan den Rijn, 1975, I & II, pl. XXVII. The artist splits the composition in a similar way on the recto and verso of the Amsterdam sheet.
Vroom, the son the sculptor and ceramic-painter Cornelis Hendricksz. Vroom, probably started his career as a pottery decorator. Vroom travelled to Spain and Italy, and became friends with Paul Bril in Rome; in Italy he further visited Milan, Genoa and Turin. Between 1592 and 1596 he collaborated with the Delft weaver François Spierincx and produced ten cartoons for the Armada tapestries commissioned by the British Admiral Lord Howard of Effingham. According to Keyes (G. Keyes, op.cit., p. 20) 'Hendrick Vroom was the leading figure in the first phase of Dutch marine painting and is justly considered its father'.
The present drawing is close in style and composition to a sheet in the Rijksprentenkabinet, Amsterdam, G. Keys, Cornelis Vroom, Marine and Landscape Artist, Alpen aan den Rijn, 1975, I & II, pl. XXVII. The artist splits the composition in a similar way on the recto and verso of the Amsterdam sheet.
Vroom, the son the sculptor and ceramic-painter Cornelis Hendricksz. Vroom, probably started his career as a pottery decorator. Vroom travelled to Spain and Italy, and became friends with Paul Bril in Rome; in Italy he further visited Milan, Genoa and Turin. Between 1592 and 1596 he collaborated with the Delft weaver François Spierincx and produced ten cartoons for the Armada tapestries commissioned by the British Admiral Lord Howard of Effingham. According to Keyes (G. Keyes, op.cit., p. 20) 'Hendrick Vroom was the leading figure in the first phase of Dutch marine painting and is justly considered its father'.