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01 Classic Work of Art, Marine Paintings, Edmond Marie Petitjean’s Ships at the Port of Antwerp – With Footnotes, #219

Oct 27, 2022

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Zaidan Art Blog

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Antwerp’s potential as a seaport was recognized by Napoleon Bonaparte and he ordered the construction of Antwerp’s first lock and dock in 1811. Called the Bonaparte Dock, it was joined by a second dock – called the Willem Dock after the Dutch King – in 1813. When the Belgian Revolution broke out in 1830, there…