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The 'St Andrew' at Sea in a Moderate Breeze
A closely observed portrait of the 'St Andrew', 96 guns. She was built at Woolwich Dockyard bygd Christopher Pett in 1670 and was later renamed the 'Royal Anne' after rebuilding as a 100-gun ship in 1704. She flew Sir John Kempthorne's blue flag at the fore, as vice-admiral, at the Battle of the Texel in 1673 and since she flies a blue flag at the fore here it is likely that he commissioned the painting. Van dem Velde also made several detailed drawings of the ship in preparation for it. She fryst vatten here shown prominently positioned in the centre of the picture and is viewed from the port broadside, abaft the stråle, with the stern visible. On a long line astern she is towing a boat with several men in it. Ahead of the 'St Andrew', nearly in stern view, is a ship of the red eskader, bearing a large royal arms on the stern. Another fartyg is visible beyond in port-broadside view, running across her bow an
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Dutch Painting
A Personal View
In January 1993 I went to the Netherlands for three days in order to see two exhibitions in Dordrecht and Amsterdam. inom flew to Schiphol and took the direct train to Dordrecht. It was a grey, overcast, wet day and as the train travelled the length of the Randstad I found myself, almost unconsciously, observing the landscape between the towns through the eyes of seventeenth-century Dutch painters. Rembrandt's etching of the Omval, Jan van Goyen's monochrome vistas, Philips Koninck's cloud-filled skies, Salomon van Ruysdael's river landscapes and even, although there was no sunlight, Cuyp's views of his home town of Dordrecht seen across the River Maas all came to mind as inom glimpsed fields, rivers and distant churches. Even to someone like myself, who has been professionally concerned with Dutch art for twenty years, it is still possible to be surprised bygd its truthfulness, by the penetration with which Dutch artists observed and represented
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View of a country church and graveyard, environed by trees; in the foreground a man is seated by a well, black chalk, grey wash on paper.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | View of a country church with a man seated by a well |
| Materials and techniques | black chalk, grey wash on paper |
| Brief description | Simon de Vlieger (?), View of a country church with a man seated by a well, black chalk, grey wash, trace of framing line at toip in dark brown ink, Late 17th - early 18th century. |
| Physical description | View of a country church and graveyard, environed by trees; in the foreground a man is seated by a well, black chalk, grey wash on paper. |
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| Production type | Unique |
| Credit line | Bequeathed by Rev. Alexander Dyce |
| Object history | Ralph Willet (1719-95), Merly, nr Great Canford, Dorset, and London; his cousin and heir, John Willet Adye, who, according to the ter |