British Warship firing Salvoes in a Calm with Other Boats
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)
Order this imageCollection
Saltram, Devon
NT 872098
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, British Warship firing Salvoes in a Calm with Other Boats by Charles Brooking (Deptford 1723 – London 1759). A British man of war at the right is firing a salute. Sailing vessels at the left and behind them another warship firing.
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 previously catalogued as attributed to Willem van der Velde the younger (Leyden 1633 – London 1707), artist possibly Peter Monamy (London 1681 - Westminster 1749), artist possibly Cornelis van de Velde (fl. 1699 - 1729), artist