Episode from the Four Days' Battle, June 1666, Second Anglo-Dutch War

A dense naval battle plays out over choppy grey-green water under a heavy sky of billowing smoke and pale clouds. Tall-masted sailing warships with furled and filled sails, many flying red, white and blue flags, crowd the middle distance, their hulls heeling in the swell.

Artist

attributed to Willem van de Velde (I)

Date

1666-1672

Medium

Source

Rijksmuseum

Size

4000 × 2552 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam