Wolter Jan Gerrit Baron Bentinck, Schout by nacht van Holland en Westvriesland, Adjudant Generaal van Z.D. Hoogheid als Admiraal Generaal.Overleden aan zyne wonden, bekomen in den roemrugtigen Zeeflag, op Doggerzbank, den V den Augustus MDCCLXXXI

Print. Engraved half length portrait of Jan Gerrit Baron Bentinck after Pieter Oets by Reinier Vinkeles. Wolter Jan Gerrit Bentinck (1745-1781), rear-admiral of Holland and West-Friesland, died during the naval battle of the Dogger Bank on 5 August 1781 during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, part of the War of American Independence, in the North Sea.

Object Details

ID: PAF3448
Type: Print
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Oets, P; Vinkeles, Reinier Oets, P Vinkeles, Reinier Allart, Johannes
Date made: circa 1781
People: Bentinck, Wolter Jan Gerrit
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Mount: 335 mm x 250 mm