A Smalschip before an Approaching Storm
studio of Willem van der Velde the younger (Leyden 1633 – London 1707)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1650 - 1707
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
584 x 718 mm (23 x 28 1/4 in)
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Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 1401177
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 Smalschip before an Approaching Storm by studio of Willem van der Velde the younger (Leyden 1633 – London 1707). Fishing boat in difficulties at left and a British warship at anchor with another boat at right. Maritime painting.
Provenance
Collected by William Windham II; thence by descent to Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer (1906 - 1969), by whom bequeathed to the National Trust in 1969 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