A fish still life on a beach with a cod, Dutch shipping beyond
Signed and dated lower left: W. Ormea./1640.

Oil on canvas
48.1 by 66 cm.

Utrecht was an important centre for the fish still life production in the Northern Netherlands in the 17th Century. Willem
Ormea, son of the fish still life painter Marcus Ormea, was a prolific painter of still lifes. (See essay L.M. Helmus under
Literature below.) In his works he often collaborated with members of the Willaerts family?father Adam and his two sons,
Abraham and Isaac?who executed the backgrounds, here the sea with the sailing vessels. While Willem Ormea usually
signed his works, the Willaerts family rarely signed these collaboration pieces.
Although Ormea lived and worked in Utrecht, which is some 70 km from the sea, he always painted saltwater fish rather
than freshwater fish. The fish and probably the smallest shell are indigenous of the North Sea. The largest shell is exotic;
it might come from the shores of Africa, from the Mediterranean or even from the Indian Ocean. Ormea is known for his
limited number of varieties that he represented in his pictures. He regularly made variations on the same composition. The
present painting dates from 1640, and Ormea executed a similar composition in 1646, which is in the Wakefield Art Gallery
in Great Britain.
Literature:
L. M. Helmus in exhibition catalogue, Utrecht, Centraal Museum, Fish?still lifes by Dutch and Flemish Masters 1550?1700,
2004, pp. 47?48, and 418, reproduced fig. 31.

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