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.
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.