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| Title | A Dutch Flagship, and Other Vessels, Running before a Gale | |
| Collection | Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums): Kelvingrove Museum | |
| Artist | Attributed to manner of Backhuysen, Ludolf, I (Dutch painter, calligrapher, and printmaker, 1630-1708) | |
| Date Earliest | possibly about 1675 | |
| Date Latest | possibly about 1825 | |
| Description | The flagship is placed centrally and seen from the stern with other vessels to right, left and ahead. All are having difficulties as they run with reduced canvas before a boiling sea. On the stern of the flagship there is a painted scene of a ploughman with plough and two horses. Below this are carved caryatids all around the stern. On the deck of the flagship the crewmen are all busy adjusting sail while dark clouds spread across the sky. | |
| Current Accession Number | 105 | |
| Former Accession Number | 149 (1855) | |
| Inscription | front lc 'LB 1686' | |
| Subject | marine | |
| Measurements | 67.9 x 88.2 cm cm (estimate) | |
| Material | oil on canvas | |
| Acquisition Details | Bequeathed by Archibald McLellan 1854. | |
| Publications | Waagen, G., Treasures of Art in Great Britain, London, III, 1854, p. 290; McLellan Catalogue, Glasgow, 1855, p. 8, no. 149; Hofstede de Groot, C., 'Hollandsche Kunst in Schotland', Oud Holland, 11, 1893, p. 136 (nos. 16-19); Hofstede de Groot, C., A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, VII, London, 1923, Backhuijsen, no. 206; Miles, H., Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Paintings in the Glasgow Art Gallery, Glasgow, 1961, I, p. 19, no. 105, II, p. 33. | |
| Notes | Red chalk inscription on stretcher '423'; pencil inscription on stretcher 'Struthers'. | |
| Rights Owner | Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums) | |
| Author | Robert Wenley | |