Schooner in a Storm
Charles Brooking (Deptford 1723 - London 1759)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1743 - 1759
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
381 x 483 mm (15 x 19 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Saltram, Devon
NT 872084
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Schooner in a Storm by Charles Brooking (Deptford 1723 – London 1759). A rough sea with a British frigate in the foreground, another in the distance.
Provenance
Accepted by HM Treasury in part payment of death-duties from the executors of Edmund Robert Parker, 4th Earl of Morley (1877-1951) and transferred to the National Trust in 1957
Credit line
Saltram, The Morley Collection (accepted in lieu of tax by HM Treasury, and transferred to The National Trust in 1957)
Makers and roles
Charles Brooking (Deptford 1723 - London 1759), artist possibly Peter Monamy (London 1681 - Westminster 1749), artist possibly Cornelis van de Velde (fl. 1699 - 1729), artist