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Willem Van de Velde, the Elder
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English: Portrait of the 'Mordaunt', Fourth Rate, built 1681, 46 guns

As the back of the paper is rubbed the drawing may be an offset from another - a process frequently used by Van de Velde as a means of replicating the details of a ship's hull. While the hull itself is carefully drawn the sails and rigging are vigorously drawn with untypical flourish.

The 'Mordaunt' was bought for the navy from Lord Mordaunt in 1683, and wrecked ten years later. The pendant flying from the main mast suggests that when the drawing was made she was already a naval ship and therefore a date of 1683 or later is likely. It was probably made as a preparatory study for an oil painting now in a private collection commissioned to mark the entry of the 'Mordaunt' into the Royal Navy.

Portrait of the 'Mordaunt', Fourth Rate, built 1681, 46 guns
Date circa 1683
date QS:P571,+1683-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Dimensions Sheet: 630 x 360 mm; Mount: 960 mm x 660 mm
Notes Box Title: Van de Velde 449-597. Exhibited in Queen's House 1982, cat No.76.; Exhibited in Masters of the Sea 1987 cat No.6.
Source/Photographer http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/157878
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Van de Velde Catalogue Number: 597
id number: PAI7281
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