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| Artist | Attributed to manner of Backhuysen, Ludolf, I (Dutch painter, calligrapher, and printmaker, 1630-1708) |
| Title | A Dutch Flagship, and Other Vessels, Running before a Gale |
| Date earliest | possibly about 1675 |
| Date latest | possibly about 1825 |
| Material | oil on canvas |
| Measurements | 67.9 x 88.2 cm |
| Inscription | front lc 'LB 1686' |
| 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. |
| Subject | marine |
| Collection | Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums): Kelvingrove Museum |
| Current accession number | 105 |
| Previous accession number(s) | 149 (1855) |
| Acquisition details | Bequeathed by Archibald McLellan 1854. |
| Principal 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 status | Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums) |
| Author | Robert Wenley |
