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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,
1678
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An English Ship in Action with Barbary Vessels. An English ship, on the left, battles with a ‘Barbary’ ship and two galleys. Smoke fills the sky and the gunfire, which reflects in the sea, illuminates the sails of the ships and their flags. In
1678
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Calm: HMS Royal James, a royal yacht and other shipping. A three-decker shown at anchor. She has a blue flag at the main signifying an admiral of the blue and a Union jack at the fore. In the right foreground is a royal yacht with an extra long pendant at
1678
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The Cleveland Yacht at sea in a fresh breeze. Oil painting (framed). Robinson, 'The Oil Paintings of the Willem van de Veldes', p. 989, no. 407. Related drawings are PAE5248, PAF6879, PAF6589. Coll: the late Michael Robinson
1678
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Commodore Charles Brown, 1678/9-1753. (Updated, April 2018). Brown is shown standing, three-quarter length, turned slightly to his left in a brown coat with a powdered wig falling behind his shoulders, against a rocky coastal background of sea, dark sky a
after 1740
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