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Summary
Hendrick Danckerts: A View of Falmouth Harbour, circa 1678
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A View of Falmouth Harbour, circa 1678  |
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| Object type | painting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Genre |
marine art |
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| Description |
English: A View of Falmouth Harbour, circa 1678 Danckerts travelled widely and his most important commission for King Charles II was to paint a series of 28 canvases depicting various palaces and fortified ports. This picture may have formed part of this series, with its combination of seascape, landscape and topographical detailing. It would have been based on drawings on the spot and shows the whole extent of Falmouth harbour, with the town on the right and a variety of shipping in the bay. The portrayal of figures in the foreground to the left is complemented by the sensitive rendering of sky and trees. The artist was a Dutch born painter, who in 1657 came with his brother, Johannes, to work in England. He became Court Painter to Charles II. The painting has been signed and dated 1678. |
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| Date | 1678 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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oil on canvas |
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| Dimensions | Painting: 665 x 1335 mm; Frame: 835 mm x 1495 mm x 90 mm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Accession number |
BHC4166 |
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| Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/15579 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Permission (Reusing this file) |
The original artefact or artwork has been assessed as public domain by age, and faithful reproductions of the two dimensional work are also public domain. No permission is required for reuse for any purpose. The text of this image record has been derived from the Royal Museums Greenwich catalogue and image metadata. Individual data and facts such as date, author and title are not copyrightable, but reuse of longer descriptive text from the catalogue may not be considered fair use. Reuse of the text must be attributed to the "National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London" and a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0 license may apply if not rewritten. Refer to Royal Museums Greenwich copyright. |
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| Identifier | Acquisition Number: OP1984-4 id number: BHC4166 |
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| Collection | Oil paintings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| current | 20:19, 1 October 2017 |  | 5,874 × 2,895 (48.65 MB) | Fæ | Royal Museums Greenwich Oil paintings (1678), http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/15579 #2000 |
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