A Seapiece, with a Dutch Fishing Boat coming in, and Men of War in the Distance
Sir Augustus Wall Calcott, RA (London 1779 - London 1844)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1826 - 1827
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1156 x 1689 mm (45 ½ x 66 ½ in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486137
Caption
Calcott was born in Kensington, London, four years after Turner, whose chief follower and imitator he became, especially in the Dutch-inspired landscapes and seapieces. In this painting his composition owes everything to Turner's Egremont Seapiece. He was a pupil of Hoppner and entered the RA Schools in 1797. He and his wife, also an artist, travelled extensively on the Continent. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1799 until his death and the British Institution between 1806-1838, was elected an Associate of the Royal Acedmey (ARA) in 1806 and RA in 1810. He was knighted in 1837 and was made the Surveyor of the Royal Collection in 1843.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A Seapiece, with a Dutch Fishing Boat coming in, and Men of War in the Distance by Sir Augustus Wall Callcott, RA (Kensington 1779 – Kensington 1844), circa 1826-1827. A seapiece of a French brig and a trawler making for harbour and at left, a man on a jetty.
Provenance
In the 3rd Earl of Egremont's (1751-1837) collection in 1835, thence by descent, until the death in 1952 of Charles Henry Wyndham, 3rd Lord Leconfield (1872-1952), who had given Petworth to the National Trust in 1947, and whose nephew and heir, John Wyndham, 6th Lord Leconfield and 1st Lord Egremont (1920-72) arranged for the acceptance of the major portion of the collections at Petworth in lieu of death duties (the first ever such arrangement) in 1956 by HM Treasury.
Credit line
Petworth House, The Egremont Collection (acquired in lieu of tax by HM Treasury in 1956 and subsequently transferred to the National Trust)
Makers and roles
Sir Augustus Wall Calcott, RA (London 1779 - London 1844), artist
Exhibition history
Turner and the Sea, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich , 2013 - 2014, no.62
References
Turner and the Sea, Royal Museums Greenwich, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, 22 November 2013 – 21 April 2014 and Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, USA, 31 May -1 September 2014, 62