Fishing Pinks before a Strong Breeze
studio of Willem van der Velde the younger (Leyden 1633 – London 1707)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1650 - 1707
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
349 x 622 mm (13 3/4 x 24 1/2 in)
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Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 1401176
Caption
The marine pictures at Felbrigg were almost all collected by William II Windham (1717-61). According to a fellow-member of the Genevan ‘Common-Room’, Richard Aldworth, Windham ‘could and did build vessels, and navigate them himself.’ Hence, perhaps, his preference for scenes that showed ships at grips with strong winds, over the calms for which Van de Velde the Younger was more celebrated.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A Kaag and a Smalschip before a Strong Breeze/ Fishing Pinks before a Strong Breeze, studio of Willem van der Velde the younger (Leyden 1633 – London 1707). A fishing boat and war vessels in a stiff breeze. Companion to P/68. Collected by William Windham II. Maritime painting.
Provenance
In 1764 inventory; Part of the Windham Collection. The hall and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust in 1969 by Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer (1906-1969)
Makers and roles
studio of Willem van der Velde the younger (Leyden 1633 – London 1707), publisher