Evertsen Jan (1 results)

Amsterdam, Clemendt de Jonghe, (ca. 1675.). Engraved half length portrait with baton and naval battles on both sides and 8 line poem in two columns by I. Koerding, after Hendrick Berckman by Abraham Blotelingh. Ca. 44 x 34,5 cm. Jan Evertsen (1600 - 1666), a member of a Zealand seafarer's dynasty, is already at the age of 18 reported as captain of a ship. He fights near La Rochelle in 1625 under Willem de Zoete and in 1626 and 1627 in a campaign against the Barbary Coast 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 captured treasure fleet of Piet Heyn and in 1636 the capture of 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 becomes Vice-Admiral and commands in 1639 a squadron in the Battle of the Downs in which he destroys the Portuguese Admiralship Santa Teresa, killing 800 of the 1000 men crew. - Jan Evertsen (1600 -1666) was the most important admiral from the heroic Evertsen dynasty from Zealand, all his five sons were named lieutenants by the Admiralty of Zeeland. - Fine. Muller, Portretten, 1593e; See Roos, Het admiralengeslacht Evertsen.