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Description: | Willem van de Velde's delicately expressive and acutely observed marine paintings were highly influential. This small painting is one of many copies and imitations which he inspired. The artist has paid particular attention to the sails which fall slack in the stillness; an attempt to emulate the effect which Van de Velde conveyed so successfully in a number of works. The blast from the cannon was also dramatically depicted by Van de Velde in his famous work A Cannon Shot, painted about 1680, which is now in the Rijksmuseum. | Subjects: | marine | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Velde, Willem van de, III (Dutch painter, 1667-after 1708) Æ Attributed to after | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8500... | Go to resource |
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