After careful restoration, the painting was discovered to be a 1666 masterpiece called View of Olinda, Brazil, created by the Dutch artist Frans Post, one of the few European painters to visit America in the 17th century.
Wikimedia CommonsFrans Post arrived in Brazil in 1637 at the age of 24 and spent the next eight years there.
Frans Post was born in 1612 in the Dutch city of Haarlem and at the age of 24 went to the then Dutch colony in Brazil. The period Post spent in Brazil had a significant influence on his work.
During his eight years in Brazil, Post created paintings of the region's landscapes and people, even after returning home to the Netherlands. He became one of the first European artists
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