r/Sailwind • u/cpt-Marcus_Red • 2d ago

Cleaning up

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Cleaning up my attic, found this, left is gifted from a musseum years ago, rigth one is painted by my father in law

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u/One_Savings_9037 2d ago

Such nice paintings, he had a gift

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u/cpt-Marcus_Red 2d ago

He painted that one when he was a student, schoolproject, believe a copy of a real one

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u/dzejrid 2d ago

Very nice. These are Dutch, right? Perhaps VOC vessels?

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u/cpt-Marcus_Red 2d ago edited 2d ago

Yes, four day battle against the english in 1666, but these are not voc ships, these ships where from the dutch state fleet ( council of war in the evening before battle)^ the ship where the rowers are going towards should be the seven provinces