Shipping in a Calm
Willem van der Velde the younger (Leyden 1633 – London 1707)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1653 - 1707
Materials
Oil on panel
Measurements
336 x 400 mm
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Penrhyn Castle, Gwynedd
NT 1420338
Summary
Oil painting on panel, Shipping in a Calm by Willem van der Velde the younger (Leyden 1633 – London 1707). Prominent Dutch vessel in left foreground; small boat nearby; others beyond.
Provenance
Bought in Brussels in 1861 by Farrer; Colonel the Hon. Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn of Llandegai (1800 – 1886); thence by descent to Hugh Napier Douglas Pennant, 4th Baron Penrhyn of Llangedai (1894 – 1949), who left Penryhn and its estates to his niece, Lady Janet Marcia Rose Pelham (1923 - 1997), who with her husband John Charles Harper, thereupon assumed the name of Douglas Pennant, and in 1951 made over the castle and part of its contents in lieu of death-duties to HM Treasury (from the estate of Hugh, 4th Baron Penrhyn (1894 – 1949), which transferred them to the National Trust;accepted by HM Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the National Trust in 2005 (estate of Lady Janet Marcia Rose Douglas Pennant (d. 1997)
Credit line
Penrhyn Castle, The Douglas Pennant Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
'166?3' (signed and dated)
Makers and roles
Willem van der Velde the younger (Leyden 1633 – London 1707), artist
References
Smith 1829-42 John Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters, 8 vols and supplement, London, 1829-42, ix, no.19. Smith 1842 John Smith, Supplement to the Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters, London, 1842, Supplement p. 763