WILLEM VAN DE VELDE THE YOUNGER (LEIDEN 1633-1707 WESTMINSTER) AND STUDIO - photo 1
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WILLEM VAN DE VELDE THE YOUNGER (LEIDEN 1633-1707 WESTMINSTER) AND STUDIO

Lot 54
29.11.2023 10:30UTC +00:00
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Starting price
£ 40 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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Lot 54 | WILLEM VAN DE VELDE THE YOUNGER (LEIDEN 1633-1707 WESTMINSTER) AND STUDIO
Estimate value
£ 40 000 – 60 000
WILLEM VAN DE VELDE THE YOUNGER (LEIDEN 1633-1707 WESTMINSTER) AND STUDIO

An English fleet running along a high coast in a moderate breeze

oil on canvas

57 ½ x 71 in. (146.2 x 180.3 cm.)





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.

A. Oswald, 'Ombersley Court, Worcestershire - II', Country Life, 9 January 1953, p. 96, p. 97, pl. 10.

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, II, p. 969-70, no. 638.

Ombersley Court Catalogue of Pictures, undated, Ombersley MS., p. 28, where listed in the Ballroom.



Exhibited

London, Earl's Court, Naval, Shipping and Fisheries Exhibition, 1905, no. 417.
Artist:Willem van de Velde II (1633 - 1707)
Auction house category:Paintings
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