WILLEM VAN DE VELDE THE YOUNGER | A STATES YACHT FROM THE ADMIRALTY OF AMSTERDAM, BEFORE A MODERATE BREEZE, MEETING A TWO-DECKER

Property from a Private Collection
WILLEM VAN DE VELDE THE YOUNGER
Leiden 1633 - 1707 London
A STATES YACHT FROM THE ADMIRALTY OF AMSTERDAM, BEFORE A MODERATE BREEZE, MEETING A TWO-DECKER

signed and dated lower right: W. V. Velde de jonge 1654
oil on canvas
20 by 26 in.; 51 by 66 cm.

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Condition Report:
The following condition report has been provided by Simon Parkes of Simon Parkes Art Conservation, Inc. 502 East 74th St. New York, NY 212-734-3920, simonparkes@msn.com, an independent restorer who is not an employee of Sotheby's.

This work is in good condition. The canvas is lined with a non-wax adhesive. Visible cracking has developed in the sky, particularly in the blue sections in the upper sky, but the paint layer is stable.
The paint layer is clean and varnished. Most of the few retouches are accurately applied, but some have slightly discolored. There are retouches along the left edge, in the upper right corner, and in a few isolated dots in the blue in the upper left. There is a small group of retouches in the sky in the lower center, and another above the sails of the vessel in the middle distance on the left. In the water in the lower right, there are a group of losses along the bottom edge beneath the large ship on the right side, and a small group of retouches in the same ship towards the back of the middle sail. There is slight thinness to the sailboat on the far left in the sails that has received a few retouches, but the rigging seems to be intact. The details in the vessels are generally all very well preserved.
The retouches could be slightly adjusted, but the work could also be hung in its current state.

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Provenance:
Francois Xavier de Burtin (1743-1818);

His sale, London, Christie's, 15 June 1822, lot 139;

Possibly John Smith, London;

Mrs. Hibbert, London;

Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 23 June 1873, lot 86, for £766 (to Nieuwenhuys);

Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 17 July 1886, lot 110, to Rutley for Edward Dent;

Thence by descent to his son, Major Leonard Dent;

By whom sold, London, Christie's, 30 March 1979, lot 69;

With Noortman Master Paintings, London;

From whom acquired by the present collector.