Willem van de Velde (Leiden 1633 - 1707 Greenwich), attributed to Willem van de Velde, 'Fortified Island (Fragment)', oil on wood panel, probably cut out of a larger composition, on the reverse on old label with attribution to Willem van de Velde the Younger (with dates of life), 14.5 x 25.3 cm, in old gilded molding (dam.), overall size: 20.5 x 31.5 cm. Limit 1620,- >> Dutch marine painter, pupil of his father and Simon de Vlieger, lived and worked in England from 1672, court marine painter to Charles II.

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