Buytewech's paintings are rare & nothing is known about his training. He was born in Rotterdam, where he was apparently active as a landscape & figure painter. This work strongly recalls the dune landscapes of Jan Wijnants (died 1684), to whom the pai ...

A variety of figures populate this small dune landscape. In the foreground a beggar is asking two approaching riders for some alms. A little further back a hunter is about to shoot an animal he has spotted in the tree. A curious aspect is the sailing boat ...

In the middle distance on the right is a frigate with a Dutch flag at the main. In the left foreground there is a gaff-rigged 'wijdschip' (a small Dutch trnasport vessel). Simon de Vlieger was one of the leading marine painters in the Netherlands in the 1 ...

In the foreground is a 'kaag', a Dutch vessel with a straight raking stem & clinker-built. The ship on the right, a man-of-war, bears the arms of the Province of Holland (the lion rampant) on her stern & a Dutch flag at the main. This picture was paint ...

The man-of-war on the left has Dutch colours. The small boat with her sprit-sail lowered & her sprit nearly horizontal in the left foreground is a 'kaag', a Dutch vessel with a straight raking stem & clinker-built. Close ahead is a small ship, probabl ...

The small boat with her mainsail half lowered in the centre is a 'kaag' (a Dutch vessel with a straight raking stem & clinker-built). A vane striped blue & yellow is at the masthead & a flag in the same colours is at the peak. A 'weyschuit' (a small Dutch open boat with a raking stern) approaches across rough seas from the left. In the right distance a 'smalschip' (a small Dutch transport vessel) or similar boat can be seen. Another signed picture of a similiar subject by Willem van de Velde is in Stockholm (Nationalmuseum). ...

On the right is a States yacht ('statenjacht') with Dutch colours. This type of ship was used to transport members or guests of the States General, the chamber of representatives of the United Provinces in The Hague. On the left another States yacht fires ...

This is the largest & most elaborate painting by Willem van de Velde in the National Gallery's Collection. It is signed inside the wreath on the pennant of the boat in the right foreground, & dated 1661 on the stern of the row-barge to the left. The central vessel is a 'statenjacht' (a vessel used by the Dutch chamber of provincial representative, the States General, to transport its members & visitors) with the arms of the Province of Holland &, above, those of Amsterdam, which are also present on the stern of the row barge alongside. In the left foreground there is another row-barge with the arms of the admiralty. The painting probably represents the departure of admiralty officials on their way from Amsterdam across the Zuiderzee to visit the fleet. ...

The identity of the family has not been established. The youngest child is being pushed along in a 'loopstoel'. The girl on the right plays an instrument which is probably a cittern. The older girl picks roses; because they are the flowers of Venus, the g ...

This portrait of an unidentified family was probably painted in the late 1640s. The parents are seated in the centre while their seven children stand & play around them. They range from the eldest daughter on the right, who appears to be aged seventeen ...