Conservation in Action: ‘A Royal Visit to the Fleet in the Thames Estuary'

A major conservation project is taking take place in the Queen’s House. One of the largest and most important paintings at Royal Museums Greenwich, ‘A Royal Visit to the Fleet in the Thames Estuary' by Willem van de Velde the Younger will be conserved live in the van de Velde studio room. The final stage of a year-long conservation project will be carried out in the reputed original location where the artist started working on it in the 1670s. This project will give the unique opportunity to the public to witness the meticulous and immensely rewarding conservation work of one of the most ambitious seascapes ever attempted by Willem van de Velde the Younger, the founder of the English school of marine painting.