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WILLEM VAN DE VELDE THE YOUNGER (LEIDEN 1633-1707 WESTMINSTER) AND STUDIO

Lot 53
29.11.2023 10:30UTC +00:00
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Starting price
£ 120 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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Lot 53 | WILLEM VAN DE VELDE THE YOUNGER (LEIDEN 1633-1707 WESTMINSTER) AND STUDIO
Estimate value
£ 120 000 – 180 000
WILLEM VAN DE VELDE THE YOUNGER (LEIDEN 1633-1707 WESTMINSTER) AND STUDIO

The Burning of the Soleil Royal during the Battle of La Hogue, 22 May 1692

oil on canvas

79 ½ x 120 ½ in. (201.9 x 306.5 cm.)

in original frame with the arms of Admiral Edward Russell





Provenance

Commissioned by Admiral Edward Russell, 1st Earl of Orford (1652-1727) for Chippenham Hall, Cambridgeshire and by inheritance to his great-niece,

Letitia Tipping (1699-1779), wife of Samuel Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys (1695-1770), and by descent to their son,

Edwin Sandys, 2nd Baron Sandys (1726-1797), and by inheritance to his niece,

Mary, Marchioness of Downshire and 1st Baroness Sandys (1764-1836), and by descent to her second son,

Lieutenant-General Arthur Hill, 2nd Baron Sandys (1792-1860), and by inheritance to his younger brother,

Arthur Marcus Sandys, 3rd Baron Sandys (1798-1863), and by descent in the family to,

Richard Hill, 7th Baron Sandys (1931-2013), at Ombersley Court, Worcestershire.



Literature

J. Grego, Inventory of Pictures: Portraits, Paintings, etc., Ombersley MS., 1905, where listed in the Great Dining Hall.

ONM / 1 / 2 / 7, journal entry for a visit to Ombersley Court, 25 August 1950, Oliver Millar Archive, Paul Mellon Centre, London, p. 29, as 'certainly by the Elder'.

A. Oswald, 'Ombersley Court, Worcestershire - II', Country Life, 9 January 1953, p. 96, pls. 6 and 7, as 'William van de Velde the Elder'.

Ombersley Court Inventory, annotated Ombersley MS., June 1963, where listed in the Dining Room.

M.S. Robinson, Van de Velde: A Catalogue of the Paintings of the Elder and Younger Willem van de Velde, Greenwich, 1990, I, p. 215, no. 635, as Willem van de Velde the Elder with studio assistance.

R. Daalder, Van de Velde & Son, Marine Painters, rev. ed., Leiden, 2020, p. 171, fig. 118.

Ombersley Court Catalogue of Pictures, undated, Ombersley MS., p. 28, as 'van de Velde the Elder', where listed in the Ballroom.



Exhibited

London, Earl's Court, Naval, Shipping and Fisheries Exhibition, 1905, no. 416.
Artist:Willem van de Velde II (1633 - 1707)
Auction house category:Paintings
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