Burning of the English Fleet near Chatham (19-24 June 1667)

...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, as attributed to Willem van de Velde, to the museum, 1883¹¹J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, p. 173; Jaarverslag Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 1883 (annual report Rijksmuseum), p. 25.

ObjectNumber: SK-A-1393

Painting representing the attack of a Dutch squadron on the English fleet at anchor in the River Medway. The raid of Chatham was the conclusive episode in the Second Anglo-Dutch War (1665-67).

In 1858, Obreen attributed this painting to Willem van de Velde.²²J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, p. 172. Willem Schellinks (1627?-1678) made a number of paintings depicting the raid. In 1858, Obreen attributed this painting to Willem van de Velde.³³Hulton 1959; Exwood & Lehmann 1993.

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. 503; J.P. Sigmond and W.T. Kloek, Sea Battles in the Dutch Golden Age, Zwolle 2014, pp. 138-48, fig. 107

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Willem Schellinks, Burning of the English Fleet near Chatham (19-24 June 1667), Amsterdam, 1667 - 1678', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.7365