20½ x 25½. Van de Velde II. Dulwich Picture Gallery FRESH BREEZES TWO Small Ships in Motion The Dulwich painting, above, features on page 810 of Robinson, Vol 2, where the acclaim it has justly merited is recorded. He dates it 1665, and in his opinion it is a copper-bottomed, 100% work by the master. No one could disagree. 26 x 42 signed monamy 23 x 34¾ signed monamy 11 x 19 unsigned The above painting is recorded by Robinson on page 898 of Vol 2. He remarks that the "principal vessel is weakly drawn and it is not possible to judge from the photograph whether she has the stern of a smalschip or of a kaag. The bluffness of the bow indicates a smalschip." It is included in his catalogue as a van de Velde, but he also adds that "it may be an eighteenth century copy". If so, would it not be a copy of the painting above it? The sky is quite similar enough to have been painted with the same scenic intention, as though the painter had the larger work before his eyes. back to the stamp by the flemish artist Fresh Breezes: Introduction Fresh Breezes: Small Ships one: the smaalschip/kaag   two: small ships   three: small ships and yachts more on yachts an english yacht head-reaching for yacht calms see also here and here Fresh Breezes: Large Ships introductory wind right to left     wind left to right calms, calms, calms monamy website index top © Charles Harrison Wallace 2001, 2003 all rights reserved