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English Warships and a Moroccan chebec in Distress
Also titled Engelse oorlogsschepen en een Marokkaanse chebeck in nood
Hendrik Kobell (Rotterdam, 1751–1779)
1775
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 7 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
The ‘roiling waters’ of the Rotterdam marine painter Hendrik Kobell II were popular and this painting was bought by no one other than stadtholder Willem v. Lightning has struck the Moroccan chebec and the flag of the English man-of-war hangs upside down from the snapped mast. The two countries were allies at the time. While Kobell had travelled to England on a study trip, he probably never visited the place of doom depicted in the painting, namely the North African coast.
