page_title: Gaspar van Eyck
section_title: Work
hierarchical_section_title: Gaspar van Eyck / Work
context_page_description: Gaspar or Casper van Eyck was a Flemish painter of marine subjects and sea-fights. He worked in Antwerp and spent some time working in Genoa and Madrid.
context_section_description: Van Eyck was a  marine specialist.  His paintings comprise the whole range of marine painting including marine battles, storms, shipwrecks, views of ships in rivers, coastal waters and ports, etc. He painted various types of ships, including Turkish galleys with Turkish figures on them. 
  He worked in the Flemish mannerist tradition of his master Andries van Eertvelt. His paintings are typically small-sized with tiny figures engaging in diverse actions and poses. Air and water acquire in his works a blurred and transparent quality, thus creating the impression that the works are unfinished. A closer view of his paintings shows the delicacy of the representation. Van Eyck worked closely with Giovanni di Filippo del Campo, who added the figures to his marines. While in Spain, van Eyck and del Campo worked for Flemish collectors based in Madrid, such as the Duke of Aarschot, who generously sponsored his work, and contributed to the distribution of his paintings in Spain.
  Three pictures by him are in the Museo del Prado.  They did not enter the royal collection until the 18th century, through the collection of Charles IV. At least two of them are dated 1649, suggesting a presence of his work in Spain since the 17th century. In these three canvases he shows his knowledge of southern European painting, both in the Italianization of some details and in certain loans from the work of Claude Lorrain and hints of the Battle of Ostia by Raphael.  These traits are visible in the Naval Battle between Turks and Maltese.
caption: Naval Battle between Turks and Maltese
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