Vrouw Maria

Vrouw Maria (Lady Mary) was a Dutch wooden two-masted merchant ship carrying a valuable cargo of art objects, captained by Raymund Lourens, that sank on 9 October 1771 in the outer archipelago of the municipality of Nagu, Finland, 11 kilometers south-east of the island of Jurmo.

Vrouw Maria was loaded with precious artifacts including works of art belonging to Catherine the Great of Russia.

The rocks caused only minor damage but shortly afterward the ship ran aground again and lost its rudder.

Interest in the ship rose in the 1970s when Christian Ahlström discovered documents regarding the incident in the national archives of Finland.

After the sinking, the Swedish ambassador to St Petersburg, Carl Ribbing, the landlord of Turku and Pori County baron Christopher Rappe, and the foreign minister of Russia, Nikita Panin, discussed the missing cargo but nothing further was done to save it.

1870, as well as works by Cornelis Coedyk, Gabriel Metsu, The Nursery by Gerard Dou (a triptych of genre scenes bought for Fl.