Naval Battle: Schotel 1850

Image] Product ID: 002393 Full Title "Naval Combat Between a Dutch and English Fleet 13 June 1665" Artist Bio: Schotel, Petrus Johannes (1808-65), painter, etcher and lithographer. He was a pupil of his father J.C. Schotel. He traveled in various countries, including France, Belgium and Germany. In 1840 he crossed the North Sea in a warship, and in 1843 he was with a training squadron in the Mediterranean. Between 1830 and 1850 he taught drawing at the Royal Naval Institute at Medemblik. The lithographs of this work were designed by Schotel as an addition on "Geschiedenis van het Ned. Zeewezen" (1833-48) by J.C. de Jonge. Schotel's work was published in Dutch under the title "Heldendaden der Nederlanders ter zee", no copy of this French edition is found by us in any library. The Dutch edition is also rare: last time in auction in 1982. - Landwehr, Bks.w.cold.plts., 420 (Dutch ed.); Cf. Maritime Prints by Dutch Masters, p 276.