(Middelburg), W.A. Keel, (1796). Half-length mezzotint portrait by Charles Howard Hodges after Jacobus Perkois. Ca. 26,5 x 21,5 cm. (Margins trimmed). Wiert Adels was steersman for the ship De Bloeyende Blom which was bringing grain from the Baltic port of Libau. A Duinkerk privateer seized his ship but after a few days he managed to recapture his ship and to seize the chief of the privateers and to throw him overboard. Thus he succeeded to bring his ship into Hellevoetsluis in 1794. This fine engraved portrait of a brave sailor was done by the English mezzotint master Hodges (1764-1837) after a drawing by Perkois (1756-1804). Hodges worked in Amsterdam and was a famous portret painter around 1800. His mezzotint engraving is of very high quality. Cf. Van Someren 227; Muller, Portetten, 17; Van der Feltz 626.