Lot 31
  • 31

Charles Brooking 1723-1759

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 GBP
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Description

  • Charles Brooking
  • A man-of-war and other shipping in an approaching storm
  • signed l.l. on the spar of wood.:Brooking
  • oil on canvas

Provenance

Sandford Collection;
Sir Bruce Ingram until 1962;
Colnaghi February 1963, acquired by Mr and Mrs Paul Mellon;
The Mellon sale, Sotheby's, 18th November 1981, lot 82, bt. by F. Fielding 

Exhibited

Hull, Ferens Art Gallery, Festival of Britain Exhibition, 1951, no.274;
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Painting in England 1700-1850-: Collection of Mr and Mrs Paul Mellon, 1963, no.27 (illus), Plates Volume, Pl.133;
Royal Academy, Painting in England 1700-1850 from the Collection of Mr and Mrs Paul Mellon, 1964-65, no.136:
Yale, University Art Gallery, Painting in England 1700-1850, 1965, no.135;
Aldeburgh Festival and Bristol City Art Gallery, Charles Brooking, 1966, no.65

Literature

David Joel, Charles Brooking, 2000, no.269, illustrated p.153