Willem the Younger Van De Velde

Exhibited by Kunsthandel P. de Boer B.V.

Material Oil on canvas

Dimensions 43 x 52.5 cm

Place of Creation around Den Helder

Price Price available on request

Status Vetted

About the Work

This painting belongs to a group van de Velde painted 20 May 1665. The Dutch Fleet gathered before the coast of Den Helder on the so- called Marsdiep, on preparation for what would be soon become ,the first naval battle of the Second Anglo-Dutch War.

Provenance

Baron Nathaniel de Rotschild ( 1836-1905 ( first owner ) - European private Collection ( last owner )

Literature

M.S.Robinson; Van de Velde, A catalogue of the paintings of the Elder and the Younger Willem van the Velde, 2 vols.London 1990 II pp.817-18, no.517, illustrated. Remmelt Daalder, Van de Velde en zoon zeeschilders, Leiden 2016, p.87, ill.48