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Willem van de Velde the Younger: Ships in a Gale  wikidata:Q20177547 reasonator:Q20177547
Artist
Willem van de Velde the Younger  (1633–1707)  wikidata:Q432266
 
Willem van de Velde the Younger
Alternative names
Willem van de Velde , Willem Willemsz. van de Velde
Description Dutch-English painter and drawer
Date of birth/death 18 December 1633 (baptised) 6 April 1707 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Leiden Greenwich
Work location
Amsterdam (1652-1656), London (ca. 1673-1707)
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artist QS:P170,Q432266
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
Ships in a Gale Edit this at Wikidata
label QS:Len,"Ships in a Gale"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Genre marine art Edit this at Wikidata
Date 1660
date QS:P571,+1660-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on oak wood
Dimensions height: 72.4 cm (28.5 in); width: 108 cm (42.5 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,72.4U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,108U174728
institution QS:P195,Q214867
Current location
West Building, Main Floor - Gallery 49
Accession number
2000.72.1
Object history Probably Proley (or Proly) collection, Paris
sale, Hôtel de Bullion by Paillet and Boileau, Paris, 20 March 1787 and days following, possibly no. 114
brought to England 1823 by (Thomas Emmerson, London)
Jeremiah Harman [1763-1844], Higham House, Woodford, by 1835, (his estate sale, Christie & Manson, London, 17-18 May 1844, 2nd day, no. 106, as A Storm and Shipwreck)
Edmund Higginson [1802-1871], Saltmarshe Castle; (his sale, Christie & Manson, London, 4-6 June 1846, no. 218, as A Storm and Shipwreck)
purchased by Brown
Edmund Higginson, Saltmarshe Castle; (his sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 16 June 1860, no. 32, as A Storm and Shipwreck); purchased by Turner
Edward Sholto, 3rd baron Penrhyn [1864-1927], London; (sale, Sotheby's, London, 3 December 1924, no. 79, as Rocky Coast with choppy sea and shipping)
possibly with (Hand, London)
sold to private collection, United States, possibly Samuel Borchard [d. 1930], New York, his estate; (his estate sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, 9 January 1947, no. 38, as A Shipwreck in a Storm off a Rocky Coast)
private collection, South America
(Otto Nauman, New York); purchased 16 June 2000 by NGA.
Exhibition history
  • Five Centuries of Marine Paintings, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1942, no. 35.
Credit line Patrons' Permanent Fund
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Monogram and date bottom center:

W.V.V. / 1660
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Source/Photographer National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., online collection

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