An English Warship Firing a Salute
1673
Painter, Dutch, 1633 - 1707


West Building Main Floor, Gallery 50-B
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 66.4 × 52.9 cm (26 1/8 × 20 13/16 in.)
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Accession
2018.10.1
Artwork history & notes
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
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].
Inscriptions
Lower right: W. V Velde In Londen 1673
Wikidata ID
Q58691076