1784
England
Height: 13½ inches (39.5cm) Width: 18½ inches (47cm)
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Dominic Serres: HMS Formidable, St. Albans, Belliguard and Swift (Brig.) 1784. This oil painting on canvas shows four Royal Navy battleships sailing on various tacks, away from two large, jagged rocks in the middle of the ocean. The low sun on the horizon is turning the clouds gold and pink. A paper label for The Leger Galleries, 13 Old Bond St., W.1., carries a longer title ‘Dominque Serres: the Formidable, the St. Albans, Belliguard and Brig Swift, on the way back from the West Indies with Admiral Piget. Dominic Serres. RA. 15th June 1783’. Signed and dated 1784. English.
Provenance: Alan Russett
Alan Russett (1929-2021) was educated at Bristol Grammar School and Exeter College, Oxford. Following a successful career in the international petroleum business, he joined the Friends of the National Maritime Museum as a researcher and archivist. This inspired him to write ‘George Chambers 1803-1840: The Sailor’s Eye and the Artist’s Hand’, ‘Dominic Serres R.A., 1719-1793, War Artist to the Navy’ and ‘John Thomas Serres 1759-1825: The Tireless Enterprise of a Marine Artist’.
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