Jan Porcellis (1580/84 Ghent – 29 January 1632 Zoeterwoude) was a Dutch marine player in the seventeenth century. His works initiated a “decisive transition from early truth to the tonal phase”, fostering a new style and subject in marine painting by focusing on overcast skies and scratchy waters, a radical crack from maritime art’s previous focus upon the grandeur of ships in historical settings. This style of greater simplicity surrounding maritime art, with the majority of the canvas displaying sea and sky, set the grounds for highly developed works in this genre.
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