View full screen - View 1 of Lot 18. Dutch shipping under way in a moderate breeze from the anchorage off Vlieland.

The Property of a Private Collector

Willem van de Velde the Elder

Dutch shipping under way in a moderate breeze from the anchorage off Vlieland

Auction Closed

December 3, 07:54 PM GMT

Estimate

1,200,000 - 1,800,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

The Property of a Private Collector


Willem van de Velde the Elder

Leiden 1611–1693 London

Dutch shipping under way in a moderate breeze from the anchorage off Vlieland


signed lower left: W.V. Velde

a monochrome pen painting (penschilderij) on oak panel

42 x 62 cm.; 16½ x 24½ in.

Otto Frederik Weise (1884–1974), Wassenaar;

By inheritance to his daughter Catharina Helena de Haas (1921–2018);

With C.P.A & G.R. Castendijk, Rotterdam;

By whom sold in 1978 to a Dutch private collector;

With Pieter de Boer, Amsterdam;

With Rob Kattenburg, Heiloo;

From whom acquired at TEFAF, Maastricht, 2013.

Tegernsee, Olaf Gulbransson Museum, Picasso, Beckmann, Turner und andere: Geschichten, die das Meer erzählt aus Privatbesitz, 1 March – 20 July 2025, no. 20.



M.S. Robinson, The Paintings of the Van de Veldes, Greenwich 1990, vol. I, p. 110, no. 820;

R. Daalder, Van de Velde & Zoon, zeeschilders, doctoral diss., Leiden 2016, pp. 224–25, and reproduced on title page;

F. Illies, ‘Bilder, die vom Meer erzählen. Ein Strandspaziergang durch eine Gattung und durch verschiedene Sammlungen’, in Picasso, Beckmann, Turner und andere: Geschichten, die das Meer erzählt aus Privatbesitz, M. Beck et al. (eds), exh. cat., Tegernsee 2025, p. 10, no. 20.