# Tomb of Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [VERHULST, Rombout]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Terracotta, pine, maple, 130 x 80 cm ## Commentary Tomb of Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp c. 1656 Terracotta, pine, maple, 130 x 80 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam This partially painted \(yellow\) terracotta relief is a study for the tomb of Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp in Delft. Lieutenant-Admiral Tromp \(1598-1653\), the seventeenth-century maritime hero, died at the Battle of Terheide off the coast of South Holland in 1653. In the First Anglo-Dutch War of 1652-1653 Tromp commanded the Dutch fleet in the battles of Dungeness, Portland, the Gabbard and Scheveningen. In the last of these, he was killed by a sharpshooter in the rigging of William Penn's ship. ## Related artworks - [Bust of Admiral Michiel Adriaensz. de Ruyter]() - [Bust of Jacob van Reygersberg]() - [Bust of Jacob van Reygersberg]() - [Bust of Marie von Reygersberg]() - [Monument to Admiral Michiel de Ruyter]() - [Tomb of Johan Polyander van Kerchoven]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()