Pieter Boddaert

Inscriptions and textual elements: PIETER BODDAERT/ Clerk of the Noble House of Flanders, / and Board of Admiralty in Zeeland, / The very finest marker, paired with the brush, / here shows the outline of BODDAERT as he lived./ To be portrayed by the best of artists thus/ Befitted him, whose art is in pure Neo-Germanic style,/ whose aim is chiefly to honour God,/ who is praised at the highest level…