Abraham Storck was a Dutch landscape and maritime painter. Like his father and three brothers, all artists, he used the name Sturckenburch and only changed it to Storck around 1688. He trained and worked with his father and became a member of the Guild of St Luke in Amsterdam. In 1694 he married Neeltje Pieters van Meyservelt, a surgeon's widow. His river and coastal scenes were greatly influenced by Ludolf Bakhuizen in the pictorial treatment of sky and water. Abraham also absorbed influences from other well-known Amsterdam marine painters, notably Willem van de Velde the younger and Jan Abrahamsz Beerstraten. The Beerstraten and Storck families were close friends and distantly related by marriage. In his paint...