Dutch Shipping in Choppy Seas
Ludolf Backhuysen the Elder (Emden 1630 - Amsterdam 1708)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1650 - 1708
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
403 x 460 mm (15 7/8 x 18 1/8 in)
Order this imageCollection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 1401164
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Dutch Shipping in Choppy Seas, by Ludolf Backhuysen I (Emden 1630 – Amsterdam 1708), signed L.B. A grey squally day with shipping vessels at sea. On buoy in the foreground. An inscription on the back of the picture, 'Admiral Lukin, Poste Namur' seems to indicate that it was acquired by the retired vice-admiral when he was living in Brussels in 1820-21.
Provenance
Probably bought by Vice-Admiral, William (Lukin) Windham (1768-1833) in Brussels, around 1820/1; thence by descent to Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer (1906 - 1969), by whom bequeathed to the National Trust in 1969
Credit line
Felbrigg Hall, The Windham Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Ludolf Backhuysen the Elder (Emden 1630 - Amsterdam 1708)