(Leiden 1611 – 1693 London)

Dutch ships under way in a moderate breeze from the anchorage off Vlieland c.1645

Pen, ink and oil on panel, 42 x 62 cm

Signed below the cart on the left:  W.V.VELDE

Provenance: Netherlands, collection C.A.P. and G.R. Castendijk, Rotterdam; their sale 1978; Collection De Jong.

Formerly Rob Kattenburg private collection

Literature: M.S. Robinson, The paintings of the Van de Veldes, Greenwich 1990, Vol. 1, p. 110, cat. nr. 820; Remmelt Daalder,Van de Velde & Son Marine Painters. The firm of Willem van de Velde the Elder and Willem van de Velde the Younger, 1640-1707, Leiden 2016, p.82, no. 46