J. Weuyster

The Sailing of the Dutch Fleet from Texel (19 July 1781)

Netherlands, 1783

Inscriptions

  • signature and date, left:J.W. 1783
  • caption, bottom centre:Het uijt Loopen van S'Lands / Vloot uijt Texel Onder Comando van / den Schout by Nacht J.A. Zoutman op den 19de / Iuly Aº 1781
  • inscription, bottom left and right: identification of the Dutch and British ships
  • inscription, right:Nº I.

Provenance

...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883

ObjectNumber: NG-MC-1354-1

Entry

Framed drawing in pen and ink with black, brown and grey wash of the Dutch fleet leaving the Texel.

This drawing is the first scene of a set of four relating to the action off Dogger Bank on 5 August 1781.

Almost nothing is known about the work of J. Weuyster (active 1760-84), except for a number of similar maritime drawings in Het Scheepvaartmuseum and the Atlas van Stolk. Some of these were probably derived from the three-part series by Mathias de Saillieth.

Literature

J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1354; De Fiere Waterleeuw 1780-1784, exh. cat. Rotterdam (Maritiem Museum ‘Prins Hendrik’) 1969, pp. 42-43, no. 47

Citation

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'J. Weuyster, The Sailing of the Dutch Fleet from Texel (19 July 1781), Netherlands, 1783', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.245156

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