Marine View

Artist William van de Velde the Younger (Dutch, 1633 - 1707)

Date1668

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsOverall: 24 3/4 × 30 3/4 inches (62.87 × 78.11 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number32-169

Signedon the upper board of the dock at extreme left: "W. V. V. 1668"

On View

On view

Gallery Location

Collections

European Art

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DescriptionMarine scene with a man-of-war under full sail in the foreground saluting. On the extreme left is a dock on pilings with a boat carrying two men approaching. A rowboat appears a little to the right of the dock. In the background are a large number of boats at rest. To the far right are two other small rowboats; one is manned and the other is tied to the ship which is firing.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Of Ships and the Sea, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, November 1–November 30, 1963, no. 4.

Gallery Label

William van de Velde was famous for his accurate portrayals of ships and naval battles, and he and his father, the maritime artist William the Elder, were sometimes present at naval battles to record them in detail. In this painting, the vessel in the foreground firing a salute is a States Yacht (from the fleet of the States of Holland), and a shield bearing the lion of the Dutch United Provinces can be seen on the stern. In the center background is the Dutch Eendracht, the flagship of Admiral Obdan, which sank at the battle of Lowestoft against the English fleet in 1665.

Provenance

Peter Burrell, Baron Gwydir (1754–1820), Grimsthorpe Castle, Lincolnshire, England, by 1820;

His posthumous sale, The capital and very valuable collection of Italian, French, Flemish, Dutch, and English pictures, and a few casts from the antique, of the late Right Hon. Lord Gwydir, deceased: brought from the family seat, Grimsthorpe Castle, in Lincolnshire, and from the London mansion at Whitehall, Christie's, London, May 8, 1829, no. 73;

With Thomas Emmerson (d. 1855), London, by 1832;

Purchased from his sale, Splendid and highly estimable collection of pictures, Phillips Son and Neale, London, June 16, 1832, no. 146, by Sir Samuel Scott (1807–1869), 1832;

With Charles Davis (d. 1920), London [1];

With D.A. Hoogendijk, Amsterdam, by 1932;

Purchased from D.A. Hoogendijk, Amsterdam, by The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, in 1932.

NOTES:

[1] A label for Messrs. Davis, 147 New Bond Street, is on the back of the painting.

Published References

A catalogue of the capital and very valuable collection of Italian, French, Flemish, Dutch, and English pictures, and a few casts from the antique, of the late Right Hon. Lord Gwydir, deceased: brought from the family seat, Grimsthorpe Castle, in Lincolnshire, and from the London mansion at Whitehall (London, May 8, 1829), 7–8.

The Important Collection of Pictures of Thomas Emmerson, Esq. of Stratford Place. A Catalogue of the Splendid and highly estimable collection of pictures (London: Phillips Son and Neale, June 15, 1932), 22.

John Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French painters, vol. 6 (London: Messrs. Smith, 1835), no. 135, p. 358.

Cornelis Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, Based on the Works of John Smith, ed. and trans. Edward G. Hawke, vol. 5 (London: MacMillan, 1923), no. 49, p. 19.

The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Handbook of the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1933), 138.

The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 3^rd ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1949), 71, (repro.).

Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4^th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 101, (repro.).

Of Ships and the Sea, exh. cat. (Vancouver, Canada: Vancouver Art Gallery, 1963), 5.

Michael Jaffé, “The Flemish and Dutch Schools,” Apollo 96, no. 130 (December 1972): 511, (repro.) [repr. in Denys Sutton, ed., William Rockhill Nelson Gallery, Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City (London: Apollo Magazine, 1972), 43, (repro.)].

Jacques Yves Cousteau, The Ocean World of Jacques Cousteau, vol. 13, A Sea of Legends: Inspiration from the Sea (New York: Danbury, 1973), 53, (repro.).

Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 1, Art of the Occident, 5^th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 115, (repro).

Michael Strang Robinson, Van de Velde: a catalogue of the paintings of the Elder and the Younger Willem van de Velde, vol. 2 (Greenwich, London: National Maritime Museum, 1990), no. 19, pp. 781–782, (repro).

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