English Warships and a Moroccan chebec in Distress

• English Warships and a Moroccan chebec in Distress
• The Shipwreck

SK-A-1218

signature and date: ‘Kobell fec 1775’

The ‘roiling waters’ of the Rotterdam marine painter Hendrik Kobell II were popular and this painting was bought by no one other than stadtholder Willem v. Lightning has struck the Moroccan chebec and the flag of the English man-of-war hangs upside down from the snapped mast. The two countries were allies at the time. While Kobell had travelled to England on a study trip, he probably never visited the place of doom depicted in the painting, namely the North African coast.

E. Bergvelt, 'Nationale, levende en 19e-eeuwse meesters : Rijksmusea en eigentijdse kunst (1800-1848), Nederlands Kunsthistorische Jaarboek 35 (1984), p. 81, afb. 1.

painter: Hendrik Kobell

1775

olieverf op doek

• height 93.5 cm x width 135 cm x thickness 4.0 cm
• depth 7.0 cm

nationalization 1795 1798-09

Public domain

E. Bergvelt, 'Nationale, levende en 19e-eeuwse meesters : Rijksmusea en eigentijdse kunst (1800-1848), Nederlands Kunsthistorische Jaarboek 35 (1984), p. 81, afb. 1.

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