An English Warship Firing a Salute, 1673

West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 50-B

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 66.4 × 52.9 cm (26 1/8 × 20 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund

Accession Number

2018.10.1

Artists / Makers

Willem van de Velde the Younger (painter) Dutch, 1633 - 1707

Image Use

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Inscription

Lower right: W. V Velde In Londen 1673

Provenance

William D. Stuart, at least in 1857.[1] Mrs. P.A. Chamier; (sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 10 April 1981, no. 74). Dr. F. Zoellner, Risch, Switzerland;[2] (sale, Sotheby's, London, 16 December 1999, no. 28); (Richard Green, London); private collection, United Kingdom; sold February 2018 through (Johnny Van Haeften, Ltd., London) to NGA.

[1] Stuart lent the painting to an 1857 exhibition at the British Institution.

[2] The 1999 Sotheby's sale catalogue describes the painting as "from the Estate of the late" Dr. Zoellner.

Associated Names

Van Haeften Ltd., Johnny

Exhibition History

1857: British Institution, London, 1857, no. 167, as The Morning Gun.

2021: Clouds, Ice, and Bounty: The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Collection of Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2021, no. 21, repro.

Bibliography

1990: Robinson, Michael Strang. Van de Velde: A Catalogue of the Paintings of the Elder and the Younger Willem van de Velde. 2 vols. Greenwich, 1990: 2:638-640, no. 348[2].