Painting ID:: 9663
A Dutch Man-of-war and Various Vessels in a Breeze r c. 1642
Oil on panel, 41,2 x 54,8 cm
National Gallery, London
VLIEGER, Simon de b. 1601, Rotterdam, d. 1653, Weesp..Dutch painter, draughtsman, etcher and stained-glass designer. He was one of the leading marine and landscape artists of the Dutch school and decisively influenced the direction of Dutch marine art during the 1630s and 1640s. His late works anticipated the shift from the monochrome or tonal phase of Dutch marine art to the more classical style of Jan van de Cappelle and Willem van de Velde the younger A Dutch Man-of-war and Various Vessels in a Breeze r c. 1642
Oil on panel, 41,2 x 54,8 cm
National Gallery, London
