Willem van de Velde the Elder

Leiden 1611 - Greenwich 1693


A Dutch Ship at Anchor in the Open Sea, with Other Shipping.

Pen Painting in black and grey ink on canvas,
15 x 22.5 cm.

Signed bottom right: w,v.velde f

ENQUIRIES

Provenance

Collection Franck W. Marten, London;
By inheritance, collection of his widow Phyllis Marten, London, 1938;
Private Collection;
Sale Christie’s London, 29 March 1974, lot 60, plate 49 (sold for 3’200 gns. to M. Henderson);
P. and D. Colnaghi & Co. Gallery, London;
Private Collection, The Netherlands;
David Koetser Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland, 2009-2010;
Private Collection, United Kingdom.

Literature

M. Robinson, Willem van de Velde, London 1990, vol. I, p. 85, no. 657 (as substantially by Willem van de Velde the Elder and c. 1685);
G. de Beer, The Golden Age of Dutch Marine Painting, The Inder Rieden Collection, Leiden 2019, Vol. III, no. 66, pp. 1040-1048, reproduced.


Exhibition

In de Ban van de Zee, De Gouden Eeuw van de Nederlandse marineschiderkunst, De Inder Rieden Collectie, Museum Bredius, The Hague, 10 December 2019- 1 March 2020, no. 16, reproduced.