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A Ship on the High Seas Caught by a Squall (The Gust)

A Ship on the High Seas Caught by a Squall (The Gust)

$95.00

A sudden squall has caught a British warship of seventy guns out on the open sea. One mast has snapped, a sail has broken loose, and a smaller ship is caught in the same weather off to the left. In 1672 Van de Velde and his father, also a marine painter, went to work for the English court. He painted this in England as a pair with The Cannon Shot: one sea in a storm, the other in a dead calm.

Willem van de Velde the Younger, about 1680

Source: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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