Portsmouth Harbour: The Hulks
| Portsmouth Harbour: The Hulks | |
|---|---|
| Artist | Edward William Cooke |
| Year | 1836 |
| Type | Oil on panel, maritime painting |
| Dimensions | 29.9 cm × 40.6 cm (11.8 in × 16.0 in) |
| Location | Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
Portsmouth Harbour: The Hulks is an oil on canvas landscape painting by the British artist Edward William Cooke, from 1836.
History and description
Depicting a scene of the British naval base of Portsmouth, it includes former French frigate Étoile captured by the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars and now reduced to a hulk.[1] [2] Cooke was a protégé of the artist Clarkson Stanfield, who became known for his maritime scenes.[3] Stanfield had also painted the port in his 1831 work Portsmouth Harbour.[4]
The painting was displayed at the British Institution's annual exhibition held at Pall Mall in 1837 and an engraving was produced based on it.[5] It was acquired by the art collector John Sheepshanks. Today is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington having been acquired as part of a major gift by Sheepshanks in 1857.[6]
References
- ^ Munday p.267
- ^ https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/portsmouth-harbour-the-hulks-32373
- ^ Van der Merwe & Took p.172
- ^ https://www.rct.uk/collection/search#/3/collection/404789/portsmouth-harbour
- ^ https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/portsmouth-harbour-the-hulks-32373
- ^ https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O133992/portsmouth-harbour-the-hulks-oil-painting-cooke-edward-william/
Bibliography
- Munday, John. Edward William Cooke: A Man of His Time. Antique Collectors' Club, 1996.
- Roe, Sonia. Oil Paintings in Public Ownership in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Public Catalogue Foundation, 2008.
- Van der Merwe, Pieter & Took, Roger. The Spectacular Career of Clarkson Stanfield. Tyne and Wear County Council Museums, 1979.