Episode from the Four Days' Naval Battle (11-14 June 1666)

...; Admiraliteit van de Maze (Admiralty of Rotterdam), Rotterdam¹¹J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, p. 172.; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883.

ObjectNumber: SK-A-1392

Painting representing a sea battle between the Dutch and English fleet. The Four Days’ Naval Battle was an important episode in the Second Anglo-Dutch War (1665-67).

The painting came from the Admiralty of Rotterdam to the Navy Model Room in The Hague.²²J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, p. 172.

J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, p. 172; P.J.J. van Thiel et al., All the Paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam: A Completely Illustrated Catalogue, coll. cat. Amsterdam 1976, p. 561; J.P. Sigmond and W.T. Kloek, Sea Battles in the Dutch Golden Age, Zwolle 2014, pp. 127-35, fig. 100

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'attributed to Willem van de (I) Velde, Episode from the Four Days' Naval Battle (11-14 June 1666), Amsterdam, in or after 1666 - in or before 1672', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.7287