Important Old Master Paintings

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Lot 201
  • 201

Studio of Willem van de Velde the Younger

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Description

  • Willem van de Velde the Younger
  • An English Galliot at Sea Running Before a Strong Wind
  • signed or inscribed lower left W.V. Velde
  • oil on canvas

Provenance

Cromwell;
By whom sold, London, Christie's, November 19-20, 1925, lot 142 (as signed W.V. Velde);
There purchased by Leggatt Bros.;
Junius S. Morgan, Jr., Locust Valley, New York;
Thence by descent to John Pierpont Morgan, 2nd.

Exhibited

Doncaster, Municipal Art Gallery and Museum, A Loan Exhibition, 1922.

Literature

M.S. Robinson, A Catalogue of the Paintings of the Elder and the Younger Willem van de Velde, vol. II, Greenwich 1990, p. 1006-7, cat. no. 452 (as "substantially painted by the Younger, c. 1690").