The Departure from Tréport of Queen Victoria, 7 September 1843
Eugène Isabey (Paris 1803 - Lagny 1886)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1843
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
470 x 597 mm (18 1/2 x 23 1/2 in)
Place of origin
France
Order this imageCollection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 515447
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, The Departure from Tréport of Queen Victoria, 7 September 1843 by Eugène Isabey (Paris 1803 - Lagny 1886). Group of men-of-war firing salute, Admiral's barge in foreground, black smoke at right. The scene, filled with smoke, shows a naval salute being fired at the harbour of Treport, commemorating the end of Queen Victoria's state visit to France in the first week of September 1843. As a souvenir of her stay at the castle of Eu, Louis-Phillipe gave her an album of 32 watercolours by various artists, including Isabey, who depicted her departure. Queen Victoria recorded in her diary how delighted she was with the gift, which is now housed at Windsor. In October of the following year Louis-Philippe paid a return visit to England, and again Isabey and other artists were commissioned to record the events. Naval celebrations occur frequently in Isabey’s oeuvre. Formerly attributed to Richard Parkes Bonnington.
Provenance
Collection of the Hon. Sir Evan Charteris (1864 - 1940) [...]; bequeathed to the National Trust by Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) with the house and the rest of the contents.
Credit line
Anglesey Abbey, The Fairhaven Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Recto : Inscribed gilt tablet affixed to bottom of frame: Calais. 1802 R. P. Bonington 1828. Exhibited Agnews 1862 Label on frame 'Calais, R.P. Bonington, 1802-1828, Exhibited Agnews 1862'. Verso: : Inscribed label on picture Agnew's label 1862
Makers and roles
Eugène Isabey (Paris 1803 - Lagny 1886), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Richard Parkes Bonington (Arnold, Near Nottingham 1802 – London 1828), artist
References
R. P. Bonington, 26 Feb - 17 Mar 1962, Agnew's, London , No.30 Miguel, 1980: Pierre Miquel, Eugène Isabey, 1803-1886. La Marine au XIXe siècle, Éditions de la Martinelle, Maurs-la- soulie, 1980., Vol. II: [Part I] No.242 (pp.124;.271; 219; 236) Miguel, 1980: Pierre Miquel, Eugène Isabey, 1803-1886. La Marine au XIXe siècle, Éditions de la Martinelle, Maurs-la- soulie, 1980., Vol.I: [Part 2] p.101; Miguel, 1980: Pierre Miquel, Eugène Isabey, 1803-1886. La Marine au XIXe siècle, Éditions de la Martinelle, Maurs-la- soulie, 1980., Vol.I: [Part 3] p.93