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In the centre is a smalschip, a transport vessel carrying a Dutch ensign. Beached on the spit of sand on the right is a weyschuit, a small open boat used for ferrying goods and people to bigger boats further out. The only man not involved in the on board tasks surveys not the view, but the huge warship a little way out, its sails rigged ready for going to sea.
This picture was painted in the studio of Willem van de Velde and was possibly the work of one of his assistants, not the artist himself. It’s also possible that it is a late seventeenth- or early eighteenth-century copy.
Title
Calm: Two Dutch Vessels
Date
probably after 1670
Medium
Oil on oak
Measurements
H 20.9 x W 27.9 cm
Accession number
NG149
Acquisition method
Bequeathed by Lord Farnborough, 1838
Work type
Painting
