Lot 160: WILLEM VAN DE VELDE THE ELDER

WILLEM VAN DE VELDE THE ELDER LEIDEN 1611 - 1693 LONDON BEACH SCENE, WITH SEAMEN PULLING A BOAT ASHORE, OTHER SHIPPING BEHIND Black chalk with touches of pen and black ink, within black chalk framing lines 114 by 233 mm

Mediterranean coastal scenes such as this are rare in the work of the Van de Veldes. Three similar drawings, which Michael Robinson attributed to Willem the Elder, are at Greenwich.υ1

1. M. Robinson, Van de Velde Drawings...in the National Maritime Museum, vol. II, Cambridge 1974, p. 122, cat. nos. 1097, 1098, 1291, the first two reproduced p. 241