# Shipping in Heavy Seas

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## Artwork

- Artist: [VELDE, Willem van de, the Younger](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/velde-willem-van-de-the-younger-r0bffb341108fca>)
- Date: 1651-1700
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 130 x 107 cm

## Commentary

This marine scene represents an English royal yacht and other shipping in heavy seas. The yacht and the storm are almost certainly based upon an actual event. It was painted very early in Van de Velde&#39;s stay in England.

## Related artworks

- [A Dutch Ship at Anchor](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/velde-willem-van-de-the-younger-r0bffb341108fca/a-dutch-ship-at-anchor-rf3c5d3f0ae5a35>)
- [A Kaag and a Smalschip at Anchor](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/velde-willem-van-de-the-younger-r0bffb341108fca/a-kaag-and-a-smalschip-at-anchor-r30f031a02ec05b>)
- [A States Yacht and Other Vessels in Light Air](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/velde-willem-van-de-the-younger-r0bffb341108fca/a-states-yacht-and-other-vessels-in-light-air-r731411f1db7d4c>)
- [An Indiaman in a Gale off a Rocky Coast](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/velde-willem-van-de-the-younger-r0bffb341108fca/an-indiaman-in-a-gale-off-a-rocky-coast-r578f36ccebf606>)
- [Blockhouses on the Amstel outside Amsterdam](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/velde-willem-van-de-the-younger-r0bffb341108fca/blockhouses-on-the-amstel-outside-amsterdam-r97c2b4c033b747>)
- [Calm - Dutch Smalschips and a Rowing Boat](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/velde-willem-van-de-the-younger-r0bffb341108fca/calm---dutch-smalschips-and-a-rowing-boat-raedec22386248f>)
- [Calm: Dutch Ships Coming to Anchor](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/velde-willem-van-de-the-younger-r0bffb341108fca/calm-dutch-ships-coming-to-anchor-r9dee47714f1d7c>)
- [Calm Sea](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/velde-willem-van-de-the-younger-r0bffb341108fca/calm-sea-r00ad23e78b0a54>)
- [Calm Sea](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/velde-willem-van-de-the-younger-r0bffb341108fca/calm-sea-r84fd6ce3086a26>)
- [Calm Sea](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/velde-willem-van-de-the-younger-r0bffb341108fca/calm-sea-rd99a01e2f81fdc>)
- [Entrance to a Dutch Port](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/velde-willem-van-de-the-younger-r0bffb341108fca/entrance-to-a-dutch-port-r26cd5fdcc1df99>)
- [Marine Landscape](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/velde-willem-van-de-the-younger-r0bffb341108fca/marine-landscape-rbe160029ff2e50>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)