Two Ships in Distress

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Willem van de Velde II, marine painter, was the son of Dutch marine painter Willem van de Velde I. He was born in Leyden and studied first under his father and then under another marine painter, Simon de Vlieger. He began hid career in the early 1650s, when living in Amsterdam and his best works date from his Dutch period. By 1672 he had settled in England and in 1674 both he and his father were in the service of Charles II. There are many examples of the work of both father and son at the National Maritime Museum and in other public collections in the UK and they cannot always be distinguished. Although neither father nor son learned the English language, their influence on English maritime painting lasted until the time of Turner.

Places

Subjects

seascape/coastal scene, storm, stone/rock, wave, ensign (ship), flag, ship

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting

Artist

Willem van de, II Velde (1633 - 1707)

Title

Two Ships in Distress

Date

c.1700

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 67.00 cm, width: 99.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Sir Bruce Ingram, March 1952

Inscription

none visible

Provenance

Collection of Thomas Conolly, MP (1823-1876) by 1872; collection of journalist and newspaper editor Sir Bruce Stirling Ingram (1877-1963); from whom purchased by the Ministry of Works in March 1952

GAC number

1473