Print. Lodewyck [Louis] Boisot (1530-1576), belonged to the nobility of the southern Netherlands, and was admiral of the Zeeland sea-beggar fleet (Watergeuzen) during the Eighty Years' War, and commander of the fleet during the siege of Leiden. This portrait is a simplified and reduced head and shoulders version of a much more elaborate half- length print with Leiden ships in the background by Visscher (1628-58), who collaborated with the publisher Pieter Soutman of Haarlem in a series of four portraits commemorating key figures in the siege story, of which that of Boisot dated 1649 was the last. This is presumably a more popular and cheaper version. For the original version by Visscher see Van Gent and Paesie, 'Zeeuwse zeehelden', pp.38-49. [PvdM 10/15]