The Anna Maria Lifeboat setting out to the Rescue of a Ship in Distress
R. B. Whitfield (fl.1892)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1892 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
610 x 890 mm (24 x 35 in )
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 884907
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, The Anna Maria Lifeboat setting out to the Rescue of a Ship in Distress by R.B. Whitfield, signed bottom right in red: R.B. WHITFIELD 1892. A view of a life boat setting out to the rescue of a ship in distress. The sea is stormy and the sky dark and heavy, with the life boat in the centre, sailing against the tide, on crest of wave.
Provenance
Purchased by G. Michael Trinick at a May, Whetter and Grose sale at Cornubia Hall, Par, Cornwall,16th August 1974, lot 47
Marks and inscriptions
R.B. Whitfield 1892 (check)
Makers and roles
R. B. Whitfield (fl.1892), artist