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A capriccio of a Mediterranean harbour with a British man-o-war and a galley and numerous figures on a quay
Details
Attributed to Laureys a Castro (active Antwerp c. 1664-c. 1700?)
A capriccio of a Mediterranean harbour with a British man-o-war and a galley and numerous figures on a quay
oil on canvas, unframed
81.5/8 x 139.7/8 in. (207.4 x 355.3 cm.)
A capriccio of a Mediterranean harbour with a British man-o-war and a galley and numerous figures on a quay
oil on canvas, unframed
81.5/8 x 139.7/8 in. (207.4 x 355.3 cm.)
Provenance
B.S. Marks; Christie's, London, 14 December 1901, lot 112, as Agostino Tassi (21 gns. to Maple).
The 9th Earl of Hardwicke.
The 9th Earl of Hardwicke.
Exhibited
London, Royal Academy, Winter Exhibition, 1886, no. 64, as Agostino Tassi.
Sale room notice
We are grateful to Dr Pieter van der Merwe of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich for the following additional information regarding this lot:
EXHIBITED:
London, Chelsea Hospital, Royal Naval Exhibition, 1891, no. 260 in the 'Blake Gallery', with the following entry: 'Embarkation of Catherine of Braganza. The Royal Charles in which Lord Sandwich brought the Princess to England, in the near distance. The arms of Charles II appear on the stern of the ship. By Lingelbach. Lent by B.S. Marks Esq.'
The present work records the voyage by the 1st Earl of Sandwich in 1662 to collect Catherine of Braganza for her marriage to King Charles II, from which one can infer that the landscape is a slightly fanciful depiction of the environs of Lisbon.
There is another depiction of the subject, similar in composition to the present picture, in the National Maritime Museum (BHC 0935), attributed to Jacob Knyff (1638-1681), that may have been in the Sandwich collection and in which the Royal Charles is depicted as a three-decked vessel. It is interesting to note that the arms from the stern of the ship survive, albeit without the top crest, in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
The Royal Charles was originally commissioned as the Naseby under Cromwell, but was renamed when Sandwich undertook his historic voyage in 1660 to bring back the restored King Charles II and the Duke of York from the United Provinces. She was carried off as a prize of war in De Ruyter's celebrated raid on the Medway in 1667 during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
EXHIBITED:
London, Chelsea Hospital, Royal Naval Exhibition, 1891, no. 260 in the 'Blake Gallery', with the following entry: 'Embarkation of Catherine of Braganza. The Royal Charles in which Lord Sandwich brought the Princess to England, in the near distance. The arms of Charles II appear on the stern of the ship. By Lingelbach. Lent by B.S. Marks Esq.'
The present work records the voyage by the 1st Earl of Sandwich in 1662 to collect Catherine of Braganza for her marriage to King Charles II, from which one can infer that the landscape is a slightly fanciful depiction of the environs of Lisbon.
There is another depiction of the subject, similar in composition to the present picture, in the National Maritime Museum (BHC 0935), attributed to Jacob Knyff (1638-1681), that may have been in the Sandwich collection and in which the Royal Charles is depicted as a three-decked vessel. It is interesting to note that the arms from the stern of the ship survive, albeit without the top crest, in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
The Royal Charles was originally commissioned as the Naseby under Cromwell, but was renamed when Sandwich undertook his historic voyage in 1660 to bring back the restored King Charles II and the Duke of York from the United Provinces. She was carried off as a prize of war in De Ruyter's celebrated raid on the Medway in 1667 during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.