File:Before the Battle of the Downs, 21 October 1639, Showing Tromp's Flagship 'Amelia' RMG BHC3189.tiff
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[edit]Reinier Nooms: Before the Battle of the Downs, 21 October 1639, Showing Tromp's Flagship 'Amelia'
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Before the Battle of the Downs, 21 October 1639, Showing Tromp's Flagship 'Amelia'  |
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| Object type | painting | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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marine art |
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| Description |
English: Before the Battle of the Downs, 21 October 1639, Showing Tromp's Flagship 'Amelia' A fleet of Dutch ships is shown assembled off the Straits of Dover in choppy seas. In the central foreground is the 'Amelia', a man-of-war launched in 1632. The 'Amelia' was Maerten Tromp's flagship at the Battle of the Downs between the Dutch and the Spanish in 1639. The decoration of the taffrail is recorded by Nooms with characteristic attention to detail; the carved coat of arms on the stern of the ship belongs to Prince Frederick Hendrickof Orange-Nassau.
Reinier Nooms, known as Zeeman, was born and died in Amsterdam. As his name suggests, he spent his early life at sea, and he painted in the Dutch Realist style with a lively palette. The artist has dated the work indistinctly on the spar in water on the right.
In the collection of van de Velde drawings in the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam (see "The Willem van de Velde drawings in the Boymans-van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, Vol I, p.91), is one showing the 'Amelia' from the port quarter (MB1866/T216). The decoration of the tafferel is described in its catalogue as follows: "... the arms of Prince Frederik Hendrik surrounded by a wreath and with full-length figures of angels sounding trumpets as supporters." |
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| Date | circa 1639 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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oil on canvas |
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| Dimensions | Frame: 1095 mm x 1314 mm x 115 mm;Painting: 914 mm x 1117 mm | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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BHC3189 |
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| Notes | Production: (Zeeman)?. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/14662 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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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: 1932-38 Caird Catalogue Number (CCAT): CC V1, P61, 306 id number: BHC3189 |
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| Collection | Oil paintings | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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