Live Auction 13322Old Master Drawings and British Drawings and Watercolours
Willem van de Velde II (Leiden 1633-1707 London)
Lot 73 THE PROPERTY OF A SWISS PRIVATE COLLECTOR

Willem van de Velde II (Leiden 1633-1707 London)

Dutch craft in a fresh breeze

Closed7 December 2016

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GBP 8,750

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Willem van de Velde II (Leiden 1633-1707 London)
Dutch craft in a fresh breeze
signed and dated 'W. V. V. J 1705'
black chalk, pen and brown ink, grey wash, brown ink framing lines
5¾ x 7 3/8 in. (14.6 x 18.8 cm.)

with Colnaghi (according to a label at the back of the frame).
Edward Seago; Christie's, London, 6 July 1976, lot 14, bought by a forebear of the present owner.

Specialist note

Dr. Pieter van der Merwe has suggested that this drawing could be a compositional demonstration drawing showing various craft at different points of sailing. He also pointed out that the three boats on the left appear to be sprit-rigged and probably kaags (small Dutch cargo/passage boats). Two drawings of the same year, similarly inscribed, are in the National Maritime Museum (M.S. Robinson, Van de Velde Drawings [...], Cambridge, 1974, II, nos. 1429 and 1430, ill.).

We are very grateful to Dr. Pieter van der Merwe for his assistance in cataloguing this drawing and the following lot.