More on Yachts Fresh Breezes: Small Ships one: the smaalschip/kaag   two: small ships three: small ships and yachts for yacht calms see here and here an english yacht head-reaching Royal Cork Yacht Club Left: a yacht model inserted in painted water. Monamy and van de Velde both used models. Compare pictures below. For models, see here. for above pictures click here, here, here for left-hand painting click here for skelt's views click here 15½ x 19¼; Sotheby's, 17 June, 1981, lot 1: "a ketch-rigged royal yacht" attributed to peter monamy; bears van de velde signature probably by neither monamy nor the younger willem van de velde The alleged Isabella painting is shown here. It is not by Monamy, in my opinion. There is some mistake here which needs checking. For models, see here. Fresh Breezes: Introduction yachts Fresh Breezes: Large Ships introductory wind right to left     wind left to right calms, calms, calms monamy website index top © Charles Harrison Wallace 2004 all rights reserved