Willem van de Velde the Younger
(Netherlands 1633–1707)
- Title
- English ships running before a gale
- Other titles:
- Seascape, men-o-war in a squall
Ships in a rough sea - Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
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32.0 x 52.0cm stretcher; 51.0 x 71.5 x 6.0cm frame
- Signature & date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1961
- Accession number
- OO1.1961
- Location
- Not on display
- Provenance (4)
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W.R. Drown (England), pre 28 Apr 1961, England, Purchased by the AGNSW from W.R. Drown 1961
Christopher Norris, post 16 Nov 1958, England, Purchased from Duits, London
Duits, London (England, estab. 1920, closed 1985), 02 Jul 1958-16 Nov 1958, London/England, Purchased Sotheby's London, 2 July 1958, lot no. 162, "The property of Lt. Col. Harold Boyd-Rochfort, removed from Middleton Park, Westmeath, Eire". Duits stock no. 803 as 'Ships in a rough sea', listed in Index cards of works sold not listed in W.E. Duits index cards. Duits index cards now in the collection of the Getty Research Institute.
Lt. Col. Harold Boyd-Rochfort (Ireland), pre 02 Jul 1958, Republic of Ireland, Sold Sotheby's London, 2 July 1958 lot no. 162, "The property of Lt. Col. Harold Boyd-Rochfort, removed from Middleton Park, Westmeath, Eire"
- Bibliography (2)
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Peter Tomory (United Kingdom) (Author), Robert Gaston (Author), European Paintings before 1800 in Australian and New Zealand public collections, Sydney, 1989, 134 (illus.). no. 412, as "Studio of"
1961 Acquisitions 1961, 1961. no. 45
- Exhibition history (1)
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Purchases and Acquisitions for 1961, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 04 Apr 1962–25 May 1962.
