Willem van de Velde II (1633-1707)

English Men-O'-War and a Smalschip in rough Seas

Details

Willem van de Velde II (1633-1707)
English Men-O'-War and a Smalschip in rough Seas
with indistinct signature ' · v velde' (lower left)
oil on canvas
24 x 35¾in. (61 x 90.8cm.)

Provenance

Prinzessin von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach.
with W.E. Duits, London, 1929.
A.H. Wild, 50 Portland Place, London W1; Christie's, 1 June 1934, lot 105 (49gns. to Whitaker), and by descent to the present owner.

Literature

M. Robinson, The Paintings of the Willem van de Veldes, Greenwich, 1990, II, p. 1056, no. 529(1).

Sale room notice

The signature can be found on the floating driftwood, lower right.

Lot Essay

Robinson lists five other versions (op. cit., under no. 529, nos. 2-6) of the present picture which he describes from a photograph as 'painted probably entirely by the Younger, c. 1685. Painted direct and very accurately'. The closest version is that in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, (inv. no. 60-4) which he says is 'more thinly painted but less directly painted' than the present lot.

When sold in 1934, this picture was accompanied by a certificate by Dr. Hofstede de Groot.

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