A calm with two boeier yachts, one firing a salute

This painting, which is coming to public auction for the first time in over a century, was only known to M.S. Robinson through the engraving included in the 1907 sale. On the basis of the print, Robinson posited the idea that ‘the picture might…be by Abraham Storck,’ a notion that can reasonably be put aside now that the picture itself has resurfaced. He proposed a date toward the end of the seventeenth century on account of the types of vessels depicted, including the kaag with a bezan rig at left (loc. cit.).