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Portrait of Jan Carel Josephus van Speyk
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Portrait of the Dutch gunboat commander Jan Carel Josephus van Speyk, who on February 5, 1831, blew up his ship after it had fallen into the hands of an angry mob of Antwerpers. Below the portrait is the explosion of the ship, in which Van Speyk, most of his crew, and an unknown number of Belgians lost their lives. At the bottom is a laudatory poem on Van Speyk's heroic deed.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit linePortret van Jan Carel Josephus van Speyk. 1831. Dirk Sluyter, Anthonius Johannes van Tetroode, J. Dankers. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
