The Maritime Soul of Delft In the salt-sprayed atmosphere of the seventeenth-century Netherlands, a period defined by the swelling tides of the Dutch Golden Age, Cornelis Bouwmeester emerged as a master of the horizon. Born in Rotterdam in 1652, his very lineage was steeped in the pigments and brushes of the era; as the son of the respected painter Pieter Cornelisz Bouwmeester, he inherited a profound sensitivity to light and form. Whi…