Willem van de Velde the Younger, 1633–1707, Dutch, active in Britain (from 1672)
Title:
English Warships Heeling in the Breeze Offshore
Date:
between 1673 and 1707
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
18 x 28 inches (45.7 x 71.1 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, The U Collection. In appreciation of Choh Shiu and Man Foo U, loving parents, and Dorothea and Frank Cockett, dear friends
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B2008.30.2
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
clouds | full-rigged ships | marine art | ships of the line | warships | flags | ships | frigates | waves (natural events)
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Spreading Canvas - Eighteenth - Century British Marine Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-09-09 - 2016-12-04)Seascapes - Marine Paintings and Watercolors from the U Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 2009-05-28 - 2009-08-23)
Publications:
Frank Davis, The London Art Market in War-Time, Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, 76, London, April 1940, p. i, N1 B87 + OVERSIZE (YCBA) Also available online at JSTOREleanor Hughes, Seascapes : marine paintings and watercolors from the U Collection [wall labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2009, p. [4], V 2165 (YCBA)Eleanor Hughes, Spreading Canvas : Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2016, p. 147, cat. 20, ND 1373.G74 S67 2016 (YCBA)Michael Strang Robinson, Van de Velde: A Catalogue of the Paintings of the Elder and the Younger Willem Van de Velde, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, 1990, p. 941-942, cat 410 [1], NJ18 V574 A12 +R62 1990 v.1-2 (YCBA)