- 22
John Wilson Carmichael
Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
Log in to view results
bidding is closed
Description
- John Wilson Carmichael
- A Man-Of-War off the Turkish Coast
- signed JW Carmichael and dated 1854 (lower right)
- oil on canvas
- 33 by 50 in.
- 83.8 by 127 cm
Provenance
Caroline Edith Dodd (and sold: Sotheby's, London, June 21, 1983, lot 130, illustrated)
Catalogue Note
The son of a ship’s carpenter, Carmichael was apprenticed to a shipbuilder as a youth. Still, at the age of 23, he was able to set up a painting workship in Newcastle, and by 1847 he had a studio in London. Carmichael exhibited marine works at both the Royal Academy (1835–59) and the British Institution (1846–62). He gained firsthand experience of life at sea aboard British ships-of-the-line in the Baltic theatre of the Crimean War in both 1854 and 1855, and his images of these battles were published as engravings in the Illustrated London News.