Van der Doort c.1639

Jan Porcellis

little Sea Piece, ships in a storm beating towards rocks, Porcellis signature painted as if on a little piece of paper

Walpole Society reference (1960): 
WS 86, № 50
Measurements (Van der Doort): 
6¼in x 8¼in (15.9 x 21cm)
Light: 
light from the left
Frame: 
black ebony frame
Provenance: 
Sir Francis Crane
Gift / Exchange / Bought / Inherited: 
gift
Location: 
Room description extended: 
By your majesty's especially command your pictures and rarities which you had kept at St James's in the Cabinet Room were transported and brought to Whitehall into the Privy Gallery in your Majesty's newly-erected Cabinet Room, whereof the particulars as well of the said rarities from St James's as also other Pictures medals agates or the like since by Your Majesty thereunto augmented, as by the number and bigness particularly signified doth appear as followeth
Original Manuscript page number: 
Windsor MS., f. 14
Identification certainty: 
Unknown
Sale Inventory c.1649-51

Jan Porcellis