Captain and his clothes.

Looking at the watercolour painting of Captain Vlieland and you notice things.
You see his clothes,book and chair and wonder what they tell you.
His hat and the way it stands up, has he a scarf underneath his hat, his beard is it fashion or belonging to a captains outfit?

We know that when captain Jan Vlieland escaped from the prison in Rotterdam he or his friend was dressed like this
In the Rotterdam  newspaper   of 21/12/1813
we find  the following.

On the 25 November 1813 is missing a person dressed in a brown woolen vest, a long white linen shirt with 24 smooth silver buttons,silver watch, silver chain.
Anyone who can point him out or return him to the madhouse (prison) in the highstreet will be paid a huge reward .

So what did the women and men wear about 1800.
To see how our ancestors were dressed we found this in Wikipedia

In the early 1800s, women wore thin gauzy outer dresses while men adopted trousers and overcoats.
Fashion in the period 1795–1820 in European and European-influenced countries saw the final triumph of undress or informal styles over the brocades, lace, periwig, and powder of the earlier eighteenth century. In the aftermath of the French Revolution, no one in France wanted to appear to be an aristocrat, while in Britain, Beau Brummell introduced trousers, perfect tailoring, and unadorned, immaculate linen as the ideals of men's fashion.
Women's fashions followed classical ideals, and tightly laced corsets were temporarily abandoned in favor of a high-waisted, natural figure.

The Schimmelpennink family .

And if you want to dress the same watch this clip.