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Dutch Ships in a Calm Sea is a 1665 oil-on-canvas painting by Dutch marine artist Willem van de Velde the Younger (1633–1707). The son of Willem van de Velde the Elder, who also specialized in marine art, he was first instructed by his father and later by Simon de Vlieger. [1]
Dutch Ships and Small Vessels Offshore in a Breeze. High, scudding clouds and a restless sea bring a feeling of freshness to Willem van de Velde’s painting. Two lowered white sails seem to tumble towards the water, and echo the froth on the tops of the waves.
Dutch Ships in a Calm Sea, Willem van de Velde (II), c. 1665. A few warships in a calm sea: their sails are being hoisted, their anchors raised. The small squadron is getting ready to depart. A sloop with dignitaries rows past the ships, to the sounding of trumpets and firing of salutes.
Willem van de Velde, Dutch Vessels lying Inshore in a Calm, one Saluting, 1660. Read about this painting, learn the key facts and zoom in to discover more.
Willem van de Velde, Boats pulling out to a Yacht in a Calm, about 1665. Read about this painting, learn the key facts and zoom in to discover more.
Painted with the artist’s usual accuracy and fine detail, the depiction of a marine occasion fairly common in a seafaring nation like seventeenth-century Holland becomes spectacular and exciting. The central vessel is a Statenjacht (state yacht) flying the Dutch colours.
His earliest paintings, from the early 1650s, include many images like this and A Calm (RCIN 407275), depicting perfectly calm seas with a dense arrangement of ships, sometimes now called ‘naval parades’.
