- Title:
- Small Dutch Vessels in a Breeze
- Object name(s):
- Picture; Dutch
- Brief description:
- Two sailing boats -- a flat-bottomed kaag and smaller, more open weyschuit, which had a similar rig -- are shown in the foreground. They appear to be at the mouth of a harbour or estuary. One sails towards and the other away from a black buoy. This is a similar composition to another van de Velde painting in the National Gallery: Two Small Vessels and a Dutch Man-of-War in a Breeze.In the background a man-of-war, or battleship, is at anchor, while another lies in the far distance. A third, to the right, is under sail. The Dutch Navy was one of the most powerful in the world at the time, powerful enough to launch a successful raid on the British Navy around the time this painting was made (the Raid on the Medway in 1667).This seascape may have been made by artists in van de Velde’s studio, copying an earlier work by him.
- Collection:
- National Gallery
- Accession date:
- 1876-01-01
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1876
- Date - latest:
- 1876
- Acquisition source:
- Wynn Ellis
- Associated concept:
- seascapes
- Associated concept:
- boats
- Credit line:
- Wynn Ellis Bequest, 1876
- Current location:
- Not on display
- Current reproduction location:
- 3/0/390/834/mid_N-0977-00-000015.jpg
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 21.00
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 29.60
- Form:
- None
- Material:
- oil on wood
- Material:
- oil
- Material:
- oak
- Object name:
- Picture; Dutch
- Object production date:
- after 1660
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1660
- Date - latest:
- 1660
- Object production date:
- Date - period:
- 1650-74
- Object production person:
- Willem van de Velde
- Person's birth date:
- 1633
- Person's death date:
- 1707
- Object production place:
- Netherlands
- Object production place:
- Amsterdam
- Other number:
- NG977
- Other number type:
- object number
- Other number:
- 0F5B-0001-0000-0000
- Other number type:
- PID
- Other number:
- NG977
- Other number type:
- display number
- Other number:
- 000-03Q3-0000
- Other number type:
- PID (NG alternative)
- Other number:
- ng2977
- Other number type:
- sort number
- Owner:
- Wynn Ellis
- Responsible department/section:
- Main Collection
- Right note:
- To encourage the use and reuse of the National Gallery's collection data, they are released under the following dedications and licences: Structured data (as opposed to narrative texts) are released under a Creative Commons Zero dedication (CC0): https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Descriptions, notes and all other narrative text content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 licence (CC BY-NC-ND): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
- Style:
- baroque
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The Dutch School
- Reference details:
- 428
- Reference note:
- Previous catalogues
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue
- Reference details:
- 698
- Reference note:
- Key bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The Dutch School, 1600-1900
- Reference details:
- 463
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeen Century
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The Paintings of the Willem van de Veldes
- Reference details:
- 2.8
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century based on the Work of John Smith
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
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Use licence for this record: CC BY
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