Repro ID: BHC0900
Title: An English ship in a gale trying to claw off a lee shore, by Willem van de Velde, the Younger.
Description: The artist is the son of the marine artist Willem van de Velde, the Elder (1611-93). By 1636 the family had moved to Amsterdam. He was probably a pupil of Simon de Vlieger from c. 1648 at Weesp, but had returned to Amsterdam by the time of his first marriage in 1652. His earliest known dated picture is from 1651. He shared a studio with his father in the Nieuwe Waalseiland concentrating on oil paintings, while his father made grisailles or 'pen pictures', and went to sea to sketch ships and naval manoeuvres. In 1672 he moved with his father to London where they worked for Charles II and the Duke of York. Their Royal commissions included tapestry designs as well as paintings. They lived first at Greenwich, where they had a studio in the Queen's House and moved to Westminster from 1691. He was buried alongside his father at St James', Piccadilly, on 11 April 1707.
Creator: Willem van de Velde, the Younger
Date: 1672
Credit line: National Maritime Museum, London
