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| Title | Christ Preaching from a Ship on the Sea of Galilee | |
| Collection | Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle | |
| Artist | Attributed to Willaerts, Adam (Dutch marine painter, 1577-1664) Previously attributed to Teniers, David, I (Flemish painter, 1582-1649) |
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| Date Earliest | possibly about 1600 | |
| Date Latest | possibly about 1664 | |
| Description | An episode from the New Testament (Luke 5. 1-10) provided a suitable subject for Adam Willaerts's characteristic beach scene with crowds of people in the foreground. Soldiers, mothers with children, priests and beggars gather to listen to Christ preaching from a boat, surrounded by his apostles. The mountainous landscape on the right recalls the Flemish tradition, within which Antwerp-born Willaerts remained, notwithstanding his emigration to Utrecht in 1611. The ship in the background bears Flemish ensigns: the double-headed black eagle on a gold ground and the combination of red and gold stripes are associated with Antwerp and Mechelen. | |
| Current Accession Number | B.M.105 | |
| Former Accession Number | No. 430 | |
| Subject | religion (Christ, apostles); landscape; marine; figure | |
| Measurements | 137.5 x 165 cm (estimate) | |
| Material | oil on canvas | |
| Acquisition Details | Bequeathed by the founders John and Joséphine Bowes 1885. | |
| Principal Exhibitions | Dutch Paintings of the 17th Century, 1951, cat. no. 108; The Timeless Moment: An Exhibition of Fine and Important Dutch and Flemish XVIIth Century Old Master Paintings, Alan Jacobs Gallery, London, 1984, cat. no. 1; Dutch Painting in the Seventeenth Century: Images of a Golden Age in British Collections, Birmingham City Museums and Art Gallery, 1989 - 1990. | |
| Publications | Wright, C., The Timeless Moment, London, 1984, cat. no. 1; Wright, C., 'Collecting in Victorian England. Dutch 17th Century Paintings in Provincial Museums', The Connoisseur, vol. 201, no. 807, May 1979, pp. 26-31; Wright, C., Images of a Golden Age: Dutch Seventeenth-Century Paintings, Birmingham, 1989. | |
| Rights Owner | The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, Co. Durham | |
| Author | Dr Mercedes Cerón | |