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Create your own bespoke print of Claude-Joseph Vernet’s A Shipwreck in Stormy Seas (' Tempête') from our collection. About this painting A Shipwreck in Stormy Seas (' Tempête'), 1773 © The National Gallery, London This painting joined our collection in 2004 With our custom print service, you can order your own fully customised reproduction from the National Gallery Collection & exhibitions. Choose your own size, print material & frames & have your masterpiece delivered straight to your door. ...
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The vessel in the centre, with a red & white ensign & flags, is a small Dutch transport vessel (possibly a 'wijdschip'). A ship with a red & white flag at the main is in the right distance. This painting can probably be dated to the late 1640s or ear ...
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Create your own bespoke print of Willem van de Velde’s A Small Dutch Vessel close-hauled in a Strong Breeze from our collection. About this painting A Small Dutch Vessel close-hauled in a Strong Breeze, about 1672 © The National Gallery, London This painting joined our collection in 1871 With our custom print service, you can order your own fully customised reproduction from the National Gallery Collection & exhibitions. Choose your own size, print material & frames & have your masterpiece delivered straight to your door. ...
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A stag is surrounded by hounds & by hunters on foot & on horseback in a river in a forest. The figures are noticeably expensively dressed & so they are probably aristocrats. In the Netherlands of the 17th century hunting remained a royal & aristoc ...
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This picture shows an imaginary landscape with a stag hunt. The fashionable attire of the hunters underscores the fact that hunting on horseback was a privilege reserved to the aristocracy in 17th-century Holl&. The beautifully drawn horses, the white horse in particular, are a trademark of Wouwermans. On the hill on the right a hermit outside his hut can also be made out. This was perhaps intended as a moralising counterpoint to the leisurely pursuits of the elegant hunters. The fluid style of this picture is characteristic of the artist's later years. ...
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Create your own bespoke print of Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder’s A Still Life of Flowers in a Wan-Li Vase from our collection. About this painting A Still Life of Flowers in a Wan-Li Vase, 1609
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This is a display of all the riches that could be found on a table. Lobsters & fowls are surrounded by fruits & a background of artichokes. Such paintings were common decoration in dining rooms & represent a fast decorative style of painting without too much effort in creating a focused composition. ...
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A Sporting Contest On The Tiber Print

The Bridge and Castle of Sant' Angelo in Rome are in the background. The jousting contest has not been identified with any particular occasion. Portraits of Vernet and his wife are said to be included in the picture, presumably the elegantly dressed couple on the right in the foreground. In 1745 Vernet had married Carlotta Cecilia Virginia Joachina (born 1728), daughter of Mark Parker, an Irish Catholic living in Rome. Commissioned by the Marquis de Villette in 1749, and one of several pictures by Vernet which he owned. The painting was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1750.
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The Bridge & Castle of Sant' Angelo in Rome are in the background. The jousting contest has not been identified with any particular occasion. Portraits of Vernet & his wife are said to be included in the picture, presumably the elegantly dressed couple on the right in the foreground. In 1745 Vernet had married Carlotta Cecilia Virginia Joachina (born 1728), daughter of Mark Parker, an Irish Catholic living in Rome. Commissioned by the Marquis de Villette in 1749, & one of several pictures by Vernet which he owned. The painting was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1750.

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