Velde, Willem van de d.Ä. (nach/after)

Description:

Leiden 1610 - London 1693
44 x 70 cm
Sailing ships on rough seas under a cloudy sky. Oil/canvas, relined, signed lower left.
Probably Major Alnuff, London; probably L. Koetser Gallery, London, 1964; Galerie Prinsengracht 723 (Drs. I. Bier), Amsterdam April till May 1971, as 'Willem van de Velde de Jonge'; probably G. Kirchwehn, Berlin, August 1973, as 'W. van de Velde II'; Galerie 'G' Berlin, 1973; private collection, Berlin since 1973.
Lit.: M.S. Robinson, Van de Velde: A Catalogue of the Paintings of the Elder and the Younger Willem van de Velde, Greenwich, 1990, II, p. 752-753, [2], attributed as 'might be a late studio copy', or 'an early eighteenth century copyist' 'after a lost original'.