File:Witte de With's Action with Dunkirkers off Nieuwpoort, 1640 RMG BHC0271.jpg

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Witte de With's Action with Dunkirkers off Nieuwpoort in 1640

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Jacob Gerritsz Loef: Witte de With's Action with Dunkirkers off Nieuwpoort, 1640  wikidata:Q50876630 reasonator:Q50876630
Artist
Jacob Gerritsz Loef  (fl. 1670)  wikidata:Q12061354
 
Alternative names
Jacob Gerritz. Loeff, Monogrammist JGL
Description Dutch painter
Date of birth/death circa 1606-1607 after 1670
date QS:P,+1670-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1670-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Location of birth Enkhuizen Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q12061354
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Author
Jacob Gerritsz Loeff
Title
Witte de With's Action with Dunkirkers off Nieuwpoort, 1640 Edit this at Wikidata
title QS:P1476,en:"Witte de With's Action with Dunkirkers off Nieuwpoort, 1640 Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Len,"Witte de With's Action with Dunkirkers off Nieuwpoort, 1640 Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Lnl,"Wittte de With in gevecht met vijf Duinkerkse kapers, 1641"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Genre marine art Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: Witte de With's Action with Dunkirkers off Nieuwpoort, 1640

During the Thirty Years War, Spanish naval power reached unprecedented levels. The ports and shipyards of Flanders, particularly Dunkirk, were the focus of maritime revival. The Flanders fleet which evolved in response to Dutch sea power became the most devastating and effective unit in Spain's defence establishment. In combination with its privateering auxiliaries, this élite striking force dominated the North Sea between 1625 and 1645, and also campaigned in the Mediterranean and Atlantic.

The scene depicts a struggle between galleons with no smaller ships or frigates in view. It is an interpretation of a Dutch ship, flying the Dutch flag and pendants, attacked by five Dunkirk privateers. They fly the Burgundian ragged-cross flag of the Spanish Netherlands. Guns are being fired from the defending Dutch ship in port-quarter view on the right and from the attacking Dunkirker to the left, seen nearly in starboard-broadside view.

This interpretation probably depicts the 1640 engagement between the Dutch commander de With and the Navarrese Admiral Miguel de Horna, who was the overall sea-commander of the Spanish Flanders fleet. In July 1640 he was intercepted by de With when returning from a privateering voyage. The battle that ensued was long and bloody but the Dutch commander was able to capture two Spanish vessels.

The painting is one of a pair with BHC0272, probably commissioned by either a merchant or specific ship owner whose property had been saved or rescued by de With. Both paintings probably depict the same encounter from 1640, since they are similar in overall design and in details of light, weather conditions and vessels shown.

Witte de With's Action with Dunkirkers off Nieuport, 1641
Date circa 1643
date QS:P571,+1643-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium oil on panel Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions Frame: 505 mm x 851 mm x 57 mm;Painting: 381 mm x 724 mm
institution QS:P195,Q7374509
Accession number
BHC0271
References
Source/Photographer http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/11763
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Acquisition Number: OP1962-69
id number: BHC0271
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