Object data
oil on canvas
support: height 111 cm × width 168 cm × thickness 3.0 cm
frame size: depth 5.2 cm
Willem Schellinks
Burning of the English Fleet near Chatham (19-24 June 1667)
Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 1667 - 1678
Conservation
- H.E. van Eendenburg, September 1998: cleaned
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, as attributed to Willem van de Velde, to the museum, 18831
Object number: SK-A-1393
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Painting representing the attack of a Dutch squadron on the English fleet at anchor in the River Medway. The raid of Chatham was the conclusive episode in the Second Anglo-Dutch War (1665-67).
In 1858, Obreen attributed this painting to Willem van de Velde.2 Willem Schellinks (1627?-1678) made a number of paintings depicting the raid. In 1858, Obreen attributed this painting to Willem van de Velde.3
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. 503; J.P. Sigmond and W.T. Kloek, Sea Battles in the Dutch Golden Age, Zwolle 2014, pp. 138-48, fig. 107
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Willem Schellinks, Burning of the English Fleet near Chatham (19-24 June 1667), Amsterdam, 1667 - 1678', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.7365
(accessed 10 November 2024 07:11:38).