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Vilhelm Bille: English: The battle of Heligoland, 1864. Dansk: Slaget ved Helgoland.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Vilhelm Bille  (1864–1908)  wikidata:Q2524699
 
Vilhelm Bille
Alternative names
Wilhelm-Victor Bille; Wilhelm Victor Bille; Vilhelm Victor Bille
Description Danish marine painter
Date of birth/death 12 September 1864 Edit this at Wikidata 28 February 1908 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Copenhagen Copenhagen
Work location
Copenhagen Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q2524699
Title
English: The battle of Heligoland, 1864.
Dansk: Slaget ved Helgoland.
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description
This is an example of an artist not doing his homework. The scene is undoubtably the battle of Heligoland, May 9, 1864, and Bille's favourite, the frigate Jylland was there. But the flags of the two Austrian frigates to the left are not the red-white-red they should be, but the red-white-blue of the Netherlands. So the experts at Sotheby's had no choice but to call this an engagement between a Danish and a Dutch fleet, which never took place.
Date between 1882 and 1908
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1882-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1908-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 27.5 cm (10.8 in); width: 51 cm (20 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,27.5U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,51U174728
UnknownUnknown
Object history
  • Auctioned at Sotheby's, London on November 30, 2005, Lot L05705/208.
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Vilh. Bille
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