Westward and Britannia in a stiff breeze off Norris Castle, 1930

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Stephen J. Renard (b.1941)
Westward and Britannia in a stiff breeze off Norris Castle, 1930
signed 'Stephen J Renard' (lower right)
oil on canvas
15 x 20 in. (38.1 x 50.9 cm.)

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Lot Essay

Westward was a large racing schooner built by Nat Herreshoff in 1910. Bought soon afterwards by a syndicate of German businessmen who renamed her Hamburg, she was sold back into American ownership after the Great War and resumed her original name. In 1924 she was bought by T.B.F. Davis and thereafter became Britannia's regular challenger at Cowes. Over the years Davis and King George V developed a fierce though friendly rivalry and Westward became so beloved by her owner that he, like the King, stipulated that his boat was to be sunk after his death.

See lot 502 for footnote on Britannia.

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