portraits and marine scenes. Only very few of his works are preserved. One of them depicts The death of Maria (1633, Cathedral of Our Lady (Antwerp)). He also painted an Assumption of Mary for a local monastery. He further painted a portrait of the marine painter Bonaventura Peeters the Elder, which hangs in the church of Our Lady in Hoboken, near Antwerp, where Peeters is buried. Abraham Matthijs painted the Whalers in the ice (National Maritime Museum Greenwich, London). It shows a fleet of whaling ships at work with some of the whales floundering about while being hauled to the shore. References External links 1581 births 1649 deaths Flemish Baroque painters Flemish landscape painters Flemish marine artists Flemish history painters Painters from Antwerp