A Fresh Breeze off Port

Smacks and freight ships on obstreperous sea

River view with ferryboat and sailboats

Sailboats in a harbor mouth in serene weather

Serene estuary with Sailboats

Sailing vessels off the coast on choppy waters

Shipping in an estuary

Setting out to sea

Sailing vessels in rough seas

Shipping in a calm

Sea-battle at the roadstead of Downs, October 21, 1639

Great Dutch naval victory over the Spanish during the Thirty Years War.

A great Spanish Armada of 75 ships, containing 13,000 recruits bound for Flanders from Spain was intercepted by a much smaller Dutch fleet of 18 ships under Admiral Maarten Tromp.

On 16 September the Dutch first attacked and forced the Spanish to withdraw. A second attack on 18 September by a now reinforced Dutch fleet forced the Spanish to flee into neutral English waters and seek shelter in the Downs roadstead. While a weak English squadron attempted to prevent any fighting,

Tromp resupplied, and on 21 October launched an attack into neutral waters. English attempts at protecting the Spanish were ineffective, and Tromp inflicted a crushing defeat on the Spanish fleet. Seventy Spanish ships were sunk or captured. The battle destroyed what remained of Spanish naval power, seriously weakened their position in Flanders, and gave the Dutch undisputed naval supremacy.

Battle between Dutch and English fleet, June 13, 1665

The first day of the Four Days battle, June 11, 1666

Honors were about even at the end of the first day of the Four Days' Battle, despite the fact that the English were outnumbered. Two Dutch ships were sunk, but the English lost three as prizes, and a further two were forced to run for harbor. This painting shows the moment when the Amsterdam captain, Heijndrick Adriaensz. of the Third Squadron, has himself rowed across to the captured Swiftsure, the flagship of Vice-Admiral William Berkeley, who had been killed in the fighting. The English colors have been struck and replaced by the Dutch tricolor. Right of the Swiftsure is the Dutch warship Reiger.

Attack of the French fleet on the Netherlands fleet in Palermo, June 2, 1676

Ships on the river at Dordrecht

Scene from the Boomkade at Dordrecht

Schotel's love was for ships and water. In his studio on the Boomkade he had the issues directly for taking. Schotel worked preferably outside, the atmosphere he directly painted on the canvas in 'magic' - in a range of blue, brown, gray and yellow tones. His work is typically Dutch, but by the many nuances never bleak. Again, the clouds broke open and the sun does snow leftovers lights.

The Boomkade in Dordrecht

The gray skies by the surrounding river above the city every day, are seldom smooth gray. Schotel saw that and gave his skies a range of colors ranging from violet to red to orange pink. He initially created gray shades in a harmonious whole, then he made under the influence of French impressionism and use of colors like purple, blue and red he retained brightness.

Marina clubhouse of the KDRZV at Dordrecht

Moored flatbottom

 The Merwedekade in Dordrecht

Canal with barges

 Reading on the beach

 Flat bottom on the IJsselmeer

 Portrait of a Parisian

Beach plasure at Scheveningen

Still life of three pears on a Gooi and Eemlander Newspaper

Hoogaartsen in the port of Veere

Sailing out of a Volendam botter

Sailboats in a harbor at down

Sailboats near Marken

Sailboats on a lake

House of the painter Voerman, Tafelbergweg Laren

 View on Gorkum

Barges near the dromedary in Enkhuizen

The Merwede river at Dordrecht

Rush hour on the Place de L'Opéra, Paris

 A view of the Leidseplein Amsterdam

 A view of the Frederiksplein Amsterdam

Rotterdam port with a boat from the Hapag Lloyd from Bremen