HMY Royal Caroline in a Stiff Breeze
after John Cleveley the Elder (Southwark c.1712 - Southwark 1777)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1750 - 1761
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
495 x 650 mm
Order this imageCollection
Owletts, Kent
NT 1411109
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, HMY Royal Caroline in a Stiff Breeze, after John Cleveley the elder (Southwark c.1712 – Southwark 1777), late 18th century. HMY Royal Caroline was a ship-rigged royal yacht. She was ordered in 1749 to replace HMY Carolina as Britain's principal royal yacht. She was built at Deptford Dockyard under the supervision of Master Shipwright John Hollond to a design by Surveyor of the Navy Joseph Allin. She was launched on 29 January 1750, renamed HMY Royal Charlotte in 1761, and was broken up in 1820.
Provenance
Believed to have been owned by Captain Thomas Baker of the East India Company; given with Owletts in 1938 by Sir Herbert Baker (1862 - 1946)
Makers and roles
after John Cleveley the Elder (Southwark c.1712 - Southwark 1777), artist