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Portrait of a long-haired man in black with a white collar, pointing at a sheet with a ship sketch before a red curtain.

Portrait of Willem van de Velde II, painter, by Lodewijk van der Helst

Half-length portrait of a long-haired man with a moustache, wearing a black doublet, white collar and ruffled cuffs. He holds an unrolled sheet showing an ink sketch of sailing ships and points at it, with a red curtain and distant sea behind him.

Artist
Lodewijk van der Helst
Date
1660-1672
Medium
Source
Rijksmuseum
Size
3545 × 4000 px
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Public domain · Rijksmuseum marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1672.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Rijksmuseum, image license https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)

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

The Sea and Ships17th centuryoil paintingpaintingrijksmuseumwhite collarred curtaindutch golden age portraitman with long hairwillem van de velde

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