Lot 171: WILLEM VAN DE VELDE THE ELDER

LEIDEN 1611 - 1693 LONDON
PORTRAIT OF A DUTCH WARSHIP
Black chalk and grey wash;
indistinctly inscribed with the name of the ship depicted, lower left (...landia?)
234 by 313 mm; 9 1/4 by 12 3/8 in

R.P. Roupell (L.2234);
his posthumous sale, London, Christie's, 12-14 July 1887, lot 1236 (to Hogarth);
The Kaiserin Victoria (1840-1901), widow of Kaiser Friedrich III of Prussia (according to an inscription on the previous mount: a Monsieur A. de Steurs / Victoria Impératrice Frédéric), by whom presented to
Alphonse de Steurs (Dutch Ambassador in Paris 1899-1921)
thence by descent until sold, London, Christie's, 9 July 2002, lot 33