# Mediterranean Harbour, with the Dutch Vessel Profeet Elias at Anchor [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BEERSTRATEN, Jan Abrahamsz.]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on oak panel, 89 x 122 cm ## Commentary The vessel can be identified as the Dutch merchantman the Profeet Elias, or Prophet Elijah. In 1650, the date of the present work, the vessel sailed from Smyrna, then part of the Ottoman Empire, on the Anatolian coast, to Venice, There is no evidence that Beerstraten ever visited Italy and so the classical and medieval buildings in this composition are probably imaginary, inspired by the work of earlier seventeenth-century Dutch artists such as Bartholomaus Breenburgh and Thomas Wyck. ## Related artworks - [Capriccio of a Mediterranean Harbour]() - [Coastal Landscape]() - [Galley in front of a Mediterranean Coast]() - [Shipwreck in Stormy Seas, near a Rocky Coast]() - [Skating at Sloten, near Amsterdam]() - [Village of Nieukoop in Winter with Child Funeral]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()