Estimated Price:

   $   

Realized Price:

   $   

What is this symbol? This symbol indicates that this auction hose has verified this price result.

Log in or subscribe to view price data

signed lower left on a buoy: C. Brooking

oil on canvas

PROVENANCE

Listed in John Smith's Day Book, 22nd December 1857, valued at £60 (with another);
Adrian Hope, his executor's sale, Christie's, 30th June 1894, lot 3, sold for £170;
Alan Good, Glympton Park, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, his sale, Sotheby's, 15th July 1953, lot 9 (with another), bt. Partridge for £400;
Basil Mavrolean, his sale, Christie's, 2nd April 1965, lot 44, bt. Leggatt for 10,000gns.

LITERATURE AND REFERENCES

John Smith's Day Book, Vol 4, p. 492;
David Joel, Charles Brooking, 2000, p. 113, no. 1A
CATALOGUE NOTE

One of Brooking's finest compositions, the artist was inspired to paint it having seen a celebrated picture by Willem van de Velde.

David Joel lists it as the first entry in his catalogue and has provided a detailed description, set out below.
An evening sky at sunset, with strato-cumulus clouds above cumulus and some blue patches. The sun is behind cloud and probably at the horizon signifying sunset, a very light air comes from the left of the picture.
To the right is a ship-rigged Royal Yacht post 1745, port quarter view firing to port from her aft midship gun. She is wearing the Royal Standard at the main, the Admiralty flag at the fore, the Union Jack at the mizzen, with the Red Ensign aft. This combination shows that the sovereign, King George II, is aboard. Her forecourse is loosed and main course clewed up, her mizzen is loose, fore and main topsails are mastheaded. A ship's boat is secured at her stern. In the left foreground is a two mastered fishing pink, port bow view, with five men aboard and about to hoist sail; a skiff at her stern with mast down and one man in her, rowing. In the background to the left and in the gunsmoke is a small ship with a pennant with a Red Ensign and all courses set.
At the left of the picture is a hoy with topsail and all courses set. To the right of the picture is a pink with sails set but becalmed and beyond her a second Royal Yacht with jib and topsail set, main brailed up with flying jib bent on. There are three seagulls flying in the foreground.