Footnotes

• PROVENANCE:
  Probably the Collection of James Fenton Esq., Norton Hall, Gloucestershire, 1880 (according to a label on the reverse)
  Probably 'A Calm - W. Vande Velde' sold at Christie's, London, February 1880, the Property of James Fenton, Norton Hall, Gloucestershire (Redford's Art Sales, vol. I, p. 307)
  With Max Koetser, London
  With Rupert Preston Gallery, London, May 1966
  Where purchased by the present owner
  
  LITERATURE:
  M. S. Robinson, The Paintings of the Willem van de Veldes, (London, 1990), vol. I, p. 395, cat. no. 573, ill. pl. 573
  
  Robinson believed that unless the present painting is a very early, heavily restored work by Van de Velde the Younger, it must be an 18th century studio picture with a copied signature (op. cit. p. 395).

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Category: Fine Art / Old Master Paintings

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