# The Dutch Navy Sailing [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [VELDE, Willem van de, the Elder]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 112 x 203 cm ## Commentary Ships in all their detailed individuality were Willem van de Velde's speciality. He often sailed with the Dutch and later the British navies, drawing studies that, once ashore, he painted as grisailles, such as this one. He made the sketch for this work at sea during the outbreak of the Third Anglo-Dutch War in 1672. ## Related artworks - [Dutch Harbour in Calm]() - [Frederick Henry's Fleet Waiting on the Merwede River near Dordrecht, 1646]() - [The Battle of Livorno \(detail\)]() - [The Battle of Livorno \(detail\)]() - [The Battle of Livorno]() - [The Battle of the Sound]() - [The Council of War on Board 'De Zeven Provincien', the Flagship of Michiel Adriaensz de Ruyter, on 10 June 1666]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()