A cash-strapped countess is suing a British art dealer, saying he shortchanged her by millions of dollars on the sale of a painting by Dutch marine master Willem van de Velde. Lesley Joan Viscountess Hambleden and her late husband William Herbert Smith — the Fourth Viscount Hambleden — asked former Sotheby’s specialist Timothy Sammons to…
HAMBURG.- This exhibition on marine
painting from
the Golden Age of Dutch culture in the 17th century centres on
spectacular works
by the main representatives of the genre – Ludolf Backhuysen, Jan
Porcellis,
Willem van de Velde (the Elder and the Younger) and Simon de Vliegher.
In
addition to these impressive large-scale seascapes, the display includes
paintings and drawings by all the leading marine painters of the time.
To this
day, these images evoke a sense of freedom, independence and adventure,
but also
a mood of contemplation and tranquillity. Curator of the exhibition:
Prof. Dr.
Martina Sitt. On view through 12 September.
