Willem van de Velde the Younger ( Leiden 1633 - London 1707 )

The Fresh Breeze: the Dutch ship ‘t Wapen van Utrecht
running before the wind, with other shipping


The Fresh Breeze: the Dutch ship ‘t Wapen van Utrecht
running before the wind, with other shipping


oil on canvas,
signed with initials ´WVV’ on driftwood lower right

Sold - Private European Collection (2011)

item sold

Provenance:

Earl of Lichfield; his sale at Shugborough Hall, August 1842, lot 75;
£441 to King;
by whom bought for Rev. John Lucy of Hampton Lucy;
his sale (deceased), Christie´s, 1st May 1875, lot 91,
650 gns. to Thos. Agnew & Son; by whom sold to
H.W.F.Bolckow, M.P. (1806-1878);
F.C.K.Fleischmann;
Frederick Noel Ashcroft (1878-1949);
thence by descent.

Literature:

J.Smith, Supplement to the Catalogue Raisonné of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters; etc., London 1842, p.823, no. 70, ‘…of exquisite quality’;
C.Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné, etc., London 1923, vol. VII, p. 118, no. 469.

Willem van de Velde the Younger