Signed 'HL exc.' 'Cum Privilegio'. Text in Latin below image: 'Vromius hic multum terris jactatus et alto: / Qui docuit vita multa ferenda probo. / Naufragia et Tabulas, Scopulos, coelique Ruinas / Tam bene qui potuit pingere nemo fuit'. This has been tentatively translated as: 'Here [is] Vroom, much tossed about by land and sea, / Who taught that many things must be borne in a virtuous life. / There was no one who was as skilled at painting pictures of / Sea battles and rocks and cataclysms in the heavens.' Hendrik Cornelisz Vroom, 1566-1640, is considered the effective inventor of marine painting as a genre and was - as the verse here implies - far more widely celebrated for it in his own time than today. This is probably the original on which PAD2469 was based. [PvdM 7/06]