Ships in a Calm

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Ships in a Calm

circa 1650-1655
Paintings
Oil on canvas
Canvas: 30 1/8 × 42 7/8 in. (76.52 × 108.9 cm) Framed: 39 1/2 × 51 × 3 1/2 in. (100.33 × 129.54 × 8.89 cm)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edward W. Carter (M.2003.108.6)
European Painting
Not currently on public view

Provenance

Messrs. Murrieta (sale, London, Christie’s, 14 May 1892, lot 126, sold to); [P. & D. Colnaghi, London]. R. D.

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Messrs. Murrieta (sale, London, Christie’s, 14 May 1892, lot 126, sold to); [P. & D. Colnaghi, London]. R. D. Walker, London (sale, London, Christie’s, 1 July 1907, lot 147, as "Dutch School," sold to); [A. Buttery, London]. Ernest James Wythes (d. 1949),(1) Copped Hall, Essex, by inheritance to his daughter; Barbara Dorothy Wythes (b. 1896, m. 1920 to Francis Guy Robert Elwes), by inheritance to her son; Major Robert Valentine Gervase Elwes (1922–1959), Oxfordshire, by inheritance to his father;(2) Col. Francis Guy Robert Elwes (1895–1966), O.B.E. (estate sale, London, Sotheby’s, 26 Mar. 1969, lot 26, sold to); [David Koetser, Zurich, sold 1971 to]; Mr. and Mrs. Edward William Carter, Los Angeles, given 2003 to; LACMA.

Footnotes

(1) According to the dealer David Carritt, London (letter to Edward Carter, 14 Feb. 1973), "While still a student Wythes inherited a huge fortune from his father, a railway builder. One of his first acts was to build a vast yacht on which to take his fellow-undergraduates to Italy and other centers of culture. . . . Wythes didn’t exactly collect. He bought all the things that retired gentlemen of his time bought, including a Botticelli and a fake Jan van Eyck, but his best picture was probably the one in your lab [the Van de Cappelle]."

(2) Major Robert V. G. Elwes died without children.
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Bibliography

  • Walsh, Jr., John., and Cynthis P. Schneider. A Mirror of Nature:  Dutch Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Edward William Carter (Second Edition).  Los Angeles:  Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1992.

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  • Walsh, Jr., John., and Cynthis P. Schneider. A Mirror of Nature:  Dutch Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Edward William Carter (Second Edition).  Los Angeles:  Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1992.

    View this publication in LACMA's Reading Room

  • Russell, Margarita. Jan van de Cappelle, 1624/6-1679. Leigh-on-Sea: F. Lewis, 1975.
  • Walsh, Amy L. The Mr. and Mrs. Edward Carter Collection of Dutch Paintings. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2019. https://archive.org/details/Carter_Collection_Dutch_Paintings (accessed May 23, 2022).
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