The Defeat of the Spanish at Gibraltar by a Dutch Fleet under the Command of Admiral Jacob van Heemskerck, 25 April 1607, Adam Willaerts, 1639

Identification

Title(s)

The Defeat of the Spanish at Gibraltar by a Dutch Fleet under the Command of Admiral Jacob van Heemskerck, 25 April 1607

Object type

painting

Object number

SK-A-2162

Inscriptions / marks

signature and date, bottom right: ‘A. Willarts 1639’

Description

Zeeslag met de overwinning op de Spanjaarden bij Gibraltar door een vloot onder bevel van Jacob van Heemskerck, 25 april 1607. De zee voor de kust is vol met oorlogsschepen die elkaar beschieten, sommige schepen staan in brand. Op de voorgrond tracht de bemanning van een gezonken schip zich in sloepen te redden.

Creation

Artist

painter: Adam Willaerts (signed by artist)

Dating

1639

Material and Technique

Physical features

oil on canvas

Material

Measurements

support: height 136 cm × width 204.5 cm
outer size: depth 5.5 cm (support incl. frame)

Subject

What

battle (+ sailing-ships)

When

1607-04-25 - 1607-04-25

Where

Straat van Gibraltar

Who

Acquisition and rights

Acquisition

purchase Jul-1905

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

? Collection Van Heemskerck family;{Note RMA.} ? by descent to Jonkheer H. Tedingh van Berckhout (on loan to the Museum der Stad Haarlem until 1907); his sale, Amsterdam (F. Muller), 27 (29) June 1905 _sqq._, no. 125, fl. 1,000, to the museum

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Relations

Documentation

The seventeenth century marine painters of the Netherlands, Rupert L. Preston, p. 68
Die holländische Marinemalerei des 17. Jahrhunderts, Laurens Johannes, 1898-1994 Bol, p. 73
Artists born between 1570 and 1600, Jonathan Bikker, p. 436, 437
De wereld van Michiel de Ruyter: de trots van Zeeland, Veronica 1956- Frenks, p. 20
Zeeslagen en zeehelden in de Gouden Eeuw, J.P. Sigmond, p. 34, 36. afb. 18
Adam Willaerts, Londen 1577 - Utrecht 1664, Otto Nelemans, p. 27 (met afbeelding)
All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Pieter J.J. van Thiel, p. 606
Tentoonstelling het schip, sleutel van de wereld, J. Wilms
De Hollandsche schilderkunst in de zeventiende eeuw, Wilhelm 1876-1954 Martin, p. 48
Die niederländische Marinemalerei, Fred. C. Willis, p. 25
Documentatiemap Schilderijen: aantekeningen R. van Luttervelt (voor 1963).

Persistent URL

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