Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Charles Brooking, 1723–1759, British
Title:
An English Flagship Under Easy Sail in a Moderate Breeze
Date:
ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
14 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches (36.8 x 57.2 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.66
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
marine art | seascape | flags | frigates | men-of-war | warships | ships | wind | sea | clouds | merchants | Union Jack | Red Ensign
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Spreading Canvas - Eighteenth - Century British Marine Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-09-09 - 2016-12-04)
Publications:
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 42-43, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)

Malcolm Cormack, Seascapes : Yale Center for British Art., , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1977, p. [ 5 ], no. 14, V 1909 (YCBA) Vertical File

Martina Droth, Britain in the world : Highlights from the Yale Center for British Art in honor of Amy Meyers, Yale University Press, New Haven, London, 2019, p. 46, N6761 .Y33 2019 (LC) (YCBA)

Eleanor Hughes, Spreading Canvas : Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2016, p. 175, cat. 41, ND 1373.G74 S67 2016 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:576