English Warship Firing a Salute (1690): Art, History and Details

English Warship Firing a Salute (1690) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Van de Velde and his father picked up their lives in Amsterdam in 1672 and moved to England to paint for the king. Their paintings of the Royal Navy’s massive ships celebrated England’s power in war and trade.

Object facts

• Title: English Warship Firing a Salute
• Date: 1690
• Culture: Netherlands
• Type: Painting
• Technique: oil on canvas
• Dimensions: Framed: 91 x 103 x 4 cm (35 13/16 x 40 9/16 x 1 9/16 in.); Unframed: 63.7 x 77.5 cm (25 1/16 x 30 1/2 in.)
• Collection: P - Netherlandish-Dutch
• Department: European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1975.80

Collection credit

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Noah L. Butkin

Further reading listed by the museum

• Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1975.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 63, no. 2 (February 1976): 31–71. Attributed to: Willem van de Velde II
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.

View the collection record

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