Lot Essay
Very similar to the painting of General Brown in style and period but slightly downriver in location, Nimrod also displays her Liverpool Code number (6,4,2) at the foremast.
In the port profile view hands are aloft stowing the royals. In the stern view on the left, having changed tack, sail is being further reduced. Built as a brig at Ipswich in 1812, Nimrod was lengthened in 1827 and rerigged as a ship, the co-owners at the time of the painting being William Ginn of Liverpool, shipwright (probably responsible for the reconstruction) and Nathaniel Fair of Manchester. In 1834 Andew Taylor became the principal owner, voyages were varied including transatlantic trading, the Mediterranean trade and India. She was lost off the Cape of Good Hope in 1851 en route for Bombay.
Only one other instance has been encountered of a painting signed in this fashion - "the cutter yacht Dicky Sam off the 'South End' Liverpool." This has the same date and a closely matching style strongly resembling Andromeda of the same period signed 'S. Walters.' the technique seems too sophisticated for Miles alone and suggests a late 'apprentice piece' by Samuel on behalf of his father.
In the port profile view hands are aloft stowing the royals. In the stern view on the left, having changed tack, sail is being further reduced. Built as a brig at Ipswich in 1812, Nimrod was lengthened in 1827 and rerigged as a ship, the co-owners at the time of the painting being William Ginn of Liverpool, shipwright (probably responsible for the reconstruction) and Nathaniel Fair of Manchester. In 1834 Andew Taylor became the principal owner, voyages were varied including transatlantic trading, the Mediterranean trade and India. She was lost off the Cape of Good Hope in 1851 en route for Bombay.
Only one other instance has been encountered of a painting signed in this fashion - "the cutter yacht Dicky Sam off the 'South End' Liverpool." This has the same date and a closely matching style strongly resembling Andromeda of the same period signed 'S. Walters.' the technique seems too sophisticated for Miles alone and suggests a late 'apprentice piece' by Samuel on behalf of his father.