(2) West Indies Landscape

The West Indies Landscape, usually attributed to Jan Mostaert, is more likely from the seventeenth century, most likely from c. 1642 and painted to mark the 150th anniversary of Columbus's first landing. It portrays the Dutch and English adventures in New Netherlands and New England in a negative light.
It is true that it is based on a description by Karel van Mander of a lost Mostaert painting, but it appears to have been painted after Van Mander's death as an hommage, to call attention to his having translated Girolamo Benzoni's History of the New World.