Engraved half-length portrait with baton within laurel-wreath with his coat of arms and with naval battle in the foreground on both sides by Aernout de Jode. With a six-line poem below. Johan Evertsen (1600-66), a member of a Zeeland seafaring dynasty, was reportedly a ship's captain at the age of eighteen. He fought near La Rochelle in 1625 under Willem de Zoete and in 1626 and 1627 in a campaign against the Barbary corsairs under Laurens Reael. Between 1628 and 1636, he distinguished himself while fighting the Dunkirk corsairs. His greatest successes were in 1628, preventing the interception by the Dunkirkers of the Spanish treasure ships being brought home by Piet Heyn after his capture of them in Matanzas Bay, Cuba, and in 1636 in sezing the famous corsair Jacob Collaert. He also played an important part in the Dutch victory in the Battle of the Slaak against the Spanish. In 1637 he became Vice-Admiral in 1639 led squadron in the Battle of the Downs in which he destroyed the Portuguese flagship 'Santa Teresa', killing 800 of the 1000-man crew. [ref: Muller, Portetten 1591.a] [PvdM 10/15]