ABSTRACT
After John Maurice had been named stadholder of Brazil by the West India Company he took the painters Frans Post and Albert Eeckhout with him on his Brazilian travels as members of his entourage of learned men to record what they saw in the country, both scientifically and artistically. The painters depicted almost everything they saw; Post painted mainly landscapes and Eeckhout people and their work. They thus made an important contribution to contemporary Europe’s knowledge of Brazil.1
