Charles Brooking (1723-1759)

Professions: Painter; Water colorist; Illustrator

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  CHARLES BROOKING 1723-1759 A ROYAL YACHT FIRING A SALUTE

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  CHARLES BROOKING 1723-1759 SHIPPING IN A CALM

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  CHARLES BROOKING 1723-1759 THE CAPTURE OF A FRENCH SHIP BY ROYAL FAMILY PRIVATEERS

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  CHARLES BROOKING 1723-1759 A BRITISH MAN OF WAR AND OTHER SHIPPING OFF THE COAST

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Charles Brooking Biography

(b ?London, c. 1723; d London, ?March 1759). English painter. According to Edwards, Brooking was ‘bred in some department of the dockyard at Deptford’. His father was possibly the Charles Brooking who was employed as a painter and decorator at Greenwich Hospital, London, between 1729 and 1736. From the period before 1750 there are two small marine paintings inscribed ‘C. Brooking aged 17 years’ (USA, priv. col.), and it is recorded that he worked for a picture dealer in Leicester Square, London. In 1752 he worked as a botanical draughtsman for John Ellis (?1710–76), providing the illustrations for the latter’s Natural History of the Corallines (London, 1755), in which he was referred to in the introduction as ‘a celebrated painter of sea-pieces’. His reputation as a marine artist was well established by 1755: four of his paintings portraying the recent exploits of a squadron of ships, the ‘Royal Family’ privateers, were engraved and published in 1753, and in 1754 he completed a commission from the Foundling Hospital (London) for the large sea-piece Flagship before the Wind under Easy Sail (London, Foundling Hosp.), possibly intended as a pendant to an earlier work by Peter Monamy. In June 1754 he was elected as one of the hospital’s governors and guardians.

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