Portrait of the 'Brilliant'?

'Brilliant' was a sloop of 6-guns captured from the French by the English in 1696, and sold in 1698, but it is not certain that van de Velde’s drawing shows this vessel.

The drawing has part of van de Velde’s signature 'W. V. V. J' (?lower right), and the letter 'S' within a shield, visible on the vessel’s stern, is the collector’s mark of the artist and engraver Johann Gottfried Schumann.(1761-1810).

Object Details

ID: PAF6663
Collection: Fine art
Type: Drawing
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Velde, Willem van de, the Younger
Vessels: Brilliant (1696)
Date made: 1696?
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Sheet: 309 x 200 mm; Mount: 554 mm x 404 mm
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