Willem van de Velde the Younger

Fishing Boats in a Calm



Willem van de Velde the Younger - Fishing Boats in a Calm



Willem van de Velde the Younger
Fishing Boats in a Calm
1658
41.9 x 56.2 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated on the spar at bottom left: W.V. Velde 1658
The Torrie Collection, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh


Exhibitions

1992 Dutch Art and Scotland: A Reflexion of Taste, Nr. 70

Provenance

Sir James Erskine of Torrie by whom bequeathed in 1825 to the University of Edinburgh which received the picture in 1836
placed on loan to the Board of Manufactures, Edinburgh, first at the Royal Institution, then at the National Gallery of Scotland for its opening in 1859 until 1983, when returned to the University of Edinburgh
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Other works by Willem van de Velde the Younger


Willem van de Velde the Younger Ships near the Coast in windy Weather
Ships near the Coast in windy Weather

Willem van de Velde the Younger Fishing Boats on Shore (The Shore, Unloading a Fishing Smack)
Fishing Boats on Shore (The Shore, Unloading a Fishing Smack)
1650 - 1707

Willem van de Velde the Younger Ships in a Stormy Sea
Ships in a Stormy Sea
c. 1700

Willem van de Velde the Younger Burning Ship by Night
Burning Ship by Night
c. 1700

Willem van de Velde the Younger The council-of-war on board the Eendracht on 24 May 1665
The council-of-war on board the Eendracht on 24 May 1665
c. 1665