WILLEM VAN DE VELDE the Younger
Leiden 1633 – 1707 London
A Seascape with a passing storm
Oil on canvas 35,5 x 62 cm.
Signed au verso on the original canvas w.v.velde f
Provenance
Mrs. Barnard, Care Castle, Yorkshire
With H.M.Clark, London
Acquired by the above circa 1920-25 by Wilhelm Caspar Escher. Zürich
Thence by descent in Private collection Switzerland
A Seascape with a passing storm
Leiden 1633 – 1707 London
Oil on canvas 35,5 x 62 cm.
Signed au verso on the original canvas w.v.velde f
Literature
R.E.O.Ekkart in the exhibition catalogue; ‘Verborgen Nederlandse en Vlaamse Schilderijen uit de 16e en 17e eeuw uit de collectie W.C.Escher, Utrecht, Centraal Museum, 2002, pp.17,20, reproduced fig.6
Apparently this painting was unknown to Robinson when compiling his Catalogue Raisonné
on the works of the van de Veldes. We are grateful to Dr.Remmelt Daalder for dating the painting to the 1670s. A date when van de Velde was already Britain and was known to sign the reserve of the canvas.
