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The Battle of Texel

British / Dutch / Paintings (Reproductions) / Sea Scapes - 11 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “The Encounter between Cornelis Tromp on the Gouden Leeuw and Sir Edward Sragg on the Royal Prince during the Battle of Kijkduin” of 1707 by Willem van de Velde the Younger.  This battle occurred on August 21, 1673 during the Third Anglo-Dutch War.  The painting was created when the artist was seventy-four years old having been born in Leiden to Willem van de Velde the Elder.  He moved to London in 1673 into the employ of Charles II.  Also patronized by the Duke of York, the future James II, Van de Velde the Younger died on April 6, 1707.   This work is 183 cm wide and 114 cm high and is in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

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The Athenaeum

American / Inspirational prints / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of Gilbert Stuart’s “The Athenaeum” which was begun in 1796.  Stuart never finished the original painting and sold his own copies of it for $ 100 each.  He was forty-one when he produced this masterpiece which has been used as the template for the one-dollar bill and many United States postage stamps and other documents.  Stuart went on to become the foremost American portraitist and completed paintings of the first six American presidents.  Originally from Rhode Island, he died on July 9, 1828.  The original of this masterpiece measures 88 by 101 cm and is in the Museum of Fine Art in Boston, Massachusetts.
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