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Sir Thomas Love, c.1571-1627. A three-quarter-length portrait slightly to the right. Only part of the sleeves of Love’s dark metallic grey doublet can be seen under his coat, or mandilion. The lace cuffs are turned back and edged with cartwheel lace
circa 1620
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A Fishing Boat in Rough Sea off a Rocky Shore. A dramatic depiction of a rough sea driving a two-masted vessel, probably a hooker, into a narrow channel between the soaring crag on the left and the rocks. The foaming water indicates the ferocity of the wa
1620s
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A Ship in a Rough Sea. In this painting, Verbeeck takes up the established subject of ships sailing off a rocky coast in a gale, which appears in both Flemish and Dutch seascapes during the first quarter of the seventeenth century. Under a moderately clou
1620s
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Dutch Ships in a Rough Sea. This tiny panel depicts shipping off a rocky coast in rough weather. Five vessels are shown sailing across large, rolling waves. Four of these vessels are visible in the far background, close to the horizon, and one is shown in
late 1620s
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