The Battle of Lowestoft
- Adriaen van Diest, Dutch, 1655-1704
Adriaen van Diest, The Battle of Lowestoft, About 1690. Oil paint on canvas; 40 3/4 × 71 1/4 in. (103.5 × 181 cm). Gift of the Berger Collection Educational Trust, 2020.3
Born in the Netherlands, Adriaen van Diest belonged to the first generation of marine artists to work in England after the tradition’s founding by Willem van de Velde and his son. In this picture van Diest commemorates England’s victory in the 1665 naval battle with the Netherlands, fought offshore of Lowestoft, on the North Sea coast of England’s easternmost point. With the burning hull of the Dutch ship Eendracht visible in the right foreground, the carved and gilded English flagship Royal Charles dominates the scene, cannons blasting and sails billowing.
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