- Titles The Man-o'-War 'Bruinvisch' and Other Ships in Rough Sea (Descriptive)
- Artist Ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch, Emden 1630 - 1708 Amsterdam
- Medium oil on canvas
- Dimensions 25 1/2 × 38 7/8 in. (64.8 × 98.7 cm) frame: 33 × 46 1/2 × 2 1/4 in. (83.8 × 118.1 × 5.7 cm)
- Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Purchase with funds provided by Caldwell and Alice Marks, AFI.26.2015
- Work Type painting
- Classification Paintings
- On View
- Provenance Anonymous sale, Bukowski, Stockholm, April 19, 1961, lot 139 [see note 1]. With dealer J. R. Bier, Haarlem, 1961 [see note 2]. With dealer Nathan Katz, Basel, in 1963 [see note 3]; private collection in Hamburg, Germany, 1964; sold at Christie's Amsterdam, May 11, 1994, lot 180. With dealer Richard Green, London; Philip Tracy and Lizanne Cunningham; sold at Christie's, London, July 9, 2015, lot 39; acquired by the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art, 2015
1. Sold for SEK 11000 "to Amsterdam" according to the auction house.
2. Kunsthandel J. R. Bier's exhibition Tentoonstelling van hollandse 17e eeuwse meesters, 1962 (ill.), mentioned as coming from a Dutch private collection. The year 1961 per the 1994 auction catalog entry.
3. See the 1994 auction catalog entry. The painting was shown at the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 3rd Antique Fair, 1963.