Ships at Anchor

Ships at Anchor

SK-A-3350

Ronde voorstelling met een oorlogsschip (op de spiegel het wapen van Amsterdam) en enkele vissersschepen voor anker, op de voorgrond eendjes.

signature: ‘W.V.V.’

painter: Willem van de Velde (II) (mentioned on object)

c. 1650 - c. 1707

oil on panel

• diameter 35.5 cm
• depth 9 cm

Gift of Mr and Mrs Kessler-Hülsmann, Kapelle op den Bosch

gift 1940-03

Public domain

…; ? sale, Jean Louis Miéville, Esq. (1808-97, London), London (Christie’s), 29 April 1899, no. 89, £283.10, to Boussod;{Copy Philadelphia Museum of Art.}…; collection Dominicus Antonius Josephus Kessler (1855-1939) and Mrs A.C.M.H. Kessler-Hülsmann (1868-1947), Kapelle op den Bosch, near Mechelen;{Note RMA.} donated, with xx other objects, by Mrs A.C.M.H. Kessler-Hülsmann to the museum, 1940

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

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