Lot 182
  • 182

WILLIAM HENRY BISHOP | The 'Warrior' Leaving Port

Estimate
1,200 - 1,800 GBP
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Description

  • The 'Warrior' Leaving Port
  • signed and dated lower right: W. H. Bishop / © '97
  • oil on canvas
  • 60.5cm. by 94cm.; 23¾in. by 37in.
together with Frank Wood, HMS Thunderer, signed l/r, watercolour (visible sheet 20 by 37.5cm.); English School, HMS Stork, mount inscribed, 465 Tons / Zanzibar 1889 (visible sheet 13 by 21cm.); Symonds & Co., HMS Majestic, photographic print (visible sheet 20.5 by 21cm.); After H.J.R., HMS Triumph Passing through the Smyth Channel, photographic print, dated September 1888 (visible sheet 27.5 by 20cm.); English School, Esquimalt, British Columbia, watercolour, unsigned (visible sheet 9.5 by 28.5cm.); After Claude Rowbotham, Victime de la Guerre, coloured etching, signed l/r (visible sheet 17 by 24cm.); Anon, Admiral of the Fleet John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, photograph, signed by the sitter and dated 1913 (visible sheet 28.5 by 17cm.); After Philip de Laszlo, Prince Louis of Battenberg, Admiral and Commander Blue Fleet 1912, the mount signed by the sitter, dated and captioned 'HMS Thunderer', photographic print (visible sheet 30 by 19.5cm.); J. Kent, Key Positions of German Ships in Scapa Flow, with printed key, signed l/r, photographic print (visble sheet 19.5 by 59.5cm.)

Provenance

The works listed after the oil painting probably from the collection of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry Francis Oliver (1865–1965);
to his wife Dame Beryl Oliver (1882–1972) to her niece;
Lady Smith

Catalogue Note

HMS Warrior was the first British iron-hulled warship, launched in 1860. This steam-powered frigate is an excellent example of pioneering 19th century naval engineering, and as such greatly interested Sir John. She was restored in the 1980s after years of fundraising led by Sir John, the Manifold Trust and the Maritime Trust. HMS Warrior is now stationed in Portsmouth harbour, where she has served as a museum ship since 1987.