Heerman Witmont

Fluyten and other three-masters in choppy weather #1

The present impeccably preserved pair of panel paintings is one of only two pairs preserved by Witmont.  Their uniqueness is further enforced by the fact that they are still in their original frames. Witmont’s oeuvre is about as small as Johannes Vermeer’s and counts, our pair included, no more than 34 paintings and no drawings. Unpublished and previously unknown, our pair is both a highpoint in Witmont’s oeuvre and an important addition to it.