Footnotes

• Alan Russett writes :- 'The composition, style, handling and technique I find quite typical, as would be the paper / image size. The ships of war all have the tall poops and high decorated sterns of the late seventeenth century which could indicate a contemporary artist. Serres was, however, an inveterate maker of drawings who possessed a large collection of van de Velde drawings, and it would have been entirely in character for him to draw, or copy drawings of such vessels from an earlier era.'
  
  LITERATURE:
  Alan Russett, Dominic Serres, Woodbridge, 2001
  
  We are grateful to Mr. Alan Russett for his assistance in cataloguing this lot and confirming the attribution on the basis of a photograph.

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Category: Fine Art / Marine Art

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