# A Dutch Man-of-War and Various Vessels in a Breeze [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [VLIEGER, Simon de]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on panel, 41 x 55 cm ## Commentary A Dutch Man-of-War and Various Vessels in a Breeze c. 1642 Oil on panel, 41 x 55 cm National Gallery, London Simon de Vlieger took his style from Porcellis \(who likewise influenced Jan van Goyen\). In the 1630s De Vlieger \(like Van Goyen\) was caught up in the tonal style, so suited to marine painting, and he gradually departed from Porcellis's tendency to paint seas in stormy wheather. As in "A Dutch Man-of-war and Various Vessels in a Breeze", his sea is usually much calmer and less threatening to the ships, the vast sky more gentle. Rarely, too, is it the high sea; the shore-line is visible on the distant horizon, and in the lower left corner a stake is ptrotruding as a discreet indication of the shore at this side. It is a wide estuary, then; ships are coming in from sea; another ship, in the distance, is riding at anchor. ## Related artworks - [An Estuary Scene]() - [Beach near Scheveningen with Fish-Sellers]() - [Calm Estuary at Dawn]() - [Calm Sea]() - [Coastal Scene]() - [Estuary Scene]() - [Landscape with River and Trees]() - [Seascape in the Morning \(detail\)]() - [Seascape in the Morning]() - [Seashore]() - [Stormy Sea]() - [The Northwest Side of the Rotterdam Gate at Delft in Winter]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()