Verbruggen the Painter

Next to his engineering and drawing skills, Jan was also an accomplished painter. Already as a young boy he was sent as an apprentice to the studio of Jan van Call (born at The Hague in 1689, worked under the patronage of the King of Prussia). In 1766 he produced the below painting of the VOC ship “de Vrientschap” being met by a VOC yacht near Enkhuizen.