File:Shipping off the English Coast RMG BHC0780.tiff
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Simon de Vlieger: Shipping off the English Coast
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Shipping off the English Coast  |
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| Object type | painting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Genre |
marine art |
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| Description |
English: Shipping off the English Coast Shipping is shown off a coast which is apparently intended to be English. Above the sheer cliff face on the left is a small fort of Henry VIII's style flying the red cross of St George on its flag. It is possible that this indicates Fort Paull in the Humber Estuary. The fort is occupied by soldiers and its wall adjoins the forbidding rocks. On the beach below several figures stand in the shadows, looking out at the shipping at sea. Seagulls are shown hovering on the cliffs and the scene is atmospheric and evocative. A Dutch ship is shown in starboard-bow view flying the Dutch flag. On the far right is an English warship with her sails lowered, flying the red ensign, and in front is a smaller yacht with passengers on board, shown in port-broadside view. The picture may have been a Dutch commission because, while the fort and land of England is shown in darkness, the Dutch ship is cast in brilliant light. The painting may also have a Civil War connotation at the time that Charles I was barred from the walled city of Hull. This reading is reinforced by the knowledge that there was Dutch colony of artists based there. Born in Rotterdam, he was one of the important early painters in the emerging discipline of marine art. He was a member of the Delft Guild of Painters from 1634 and by 1638 was in Amsterdam. He settled in nearby Weesp and remained there for the rest of his life. De Vlieger decisively influenced the direction of Dutch marine art during the 1630s and 1640s. Significantly, as the pupil of Jan Porcellis and the master of Willem van de Velde the Younger, he provided a bridge between the second generation of Dutch marine painters and the third. He demonstrated his versatility and technical accomplishment by painting a wide variety of marine subjects and was also a sophisticated early exponent of the Dutch realist tradition. He moved away from a monochrome palette towards a silvery tonality and demonstrated a closely observed knowledge of shipping. He also painted figural representations for churches, genre scenes and landscapes, and was also an etcher. This painting is signed 'S de Vlieger' on a rock in foreground, right. |
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| Date | circa 1642 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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oil on panel |
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| Dimensions | Frame: 794 mm x 1011 mm x 105 mm;Painting: 605 mm x 835 mm x 13 mm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Accession number |
BHC0780 |
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| Notes |
Signed. This painting is not formally part of the Palmer Collection (79 pictures) acquired in 1963 following his death, though it does make acquisitions from him up to a round 80. It only had a Flemish school attribution when he acted independently to obtain it (suspecting it was de Vlieger, as confirmed when it was cleaned and a signature found) and sold it to the Museum on reimbursement of cost basis. Whether he had previously discussed this course of, in effect, acting as short-term 'banker' remains TBC. [PvdM]. Within the Museum’s Loans Out Policy there is a presumption against lending panel paintings. Please consult Registration for further details. |
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| Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/12272 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Permission (Reusing this file) |
The original artefact or artwork has been assessed as public domain by age, and faithful reproductions of the two dimensional work are also public domain. No permission is required for reuse for any purpose. The text of this image record has been derived from the Royal Museums Greenwich catalogue and image metadata. Individual data and facts such as date, author and title are not copyrightable, but reuse of longer descriptive text from the catalogue may not be considered fair use. Reuse of the text must be attributed to the "National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London" and a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0 license may apply if not rewritten. Refer to Royal Museums Greenwich copyright. |
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| Identifier | Acquisition Number: OP1957-22 id number: BHC0780 |
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| Collection | Oil paintings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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