Object data
oil on canvas
support: height 151.0 cm × width 235.0 cm
depth 6 cm
Willem van de Velde (I) (attributed to)
Episode from the Four Days' Naval Battle (11-14 June 1666)
Amsterdam, in or after 1666 - in or before 1672
Provenance
...; Admiraliteit van de Maze (Admiralty of Rotterdam), Rotterdam1; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883.
Object number: SK-A-1392
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Painting representing a sea battle between the Dutch and English fleet. The Four Days’ Naval Battle was an important episode in the Second Anglo-Dutch War (1665-67).
The painting came from the Admiralty of Rotterdam to the Navy Model Room in The Hague.2
Literature
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, p. 172; P.J.J. van Thiel et al., All the Paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam: A Completely Illustrated Catalogue, coll. cat. Amsterdam 1976, p. 561; J.P. Sigmond and W.T. Kloek, Sea Battles in the Dutch Golden Age, Zwolle 2014, pp. 127-35, fig. 100
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'attributed to Willem van de (I) Velde, Episode from the Four Days' Naval Battle (11-14 June 1666), Amsterdam, in or after 1666 - in or before 1672', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.7287
(accessed 21 September 2024 22:12:23).