A sailing vessel in a squall off a headland

Details

Samuel Palmer, R.W.S. (1805-1881)
A sailing vessel in a squall off a headland
grey wash with scratching out
3½ x 3 7/8 in. (9 x 9.8 cm.)

Provenance

George Cumberland.
Nind-Ward.
L.G. Duke.
with Spink, London.
George Goyder by 1961.

Literature

R. Lister, Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of Samuel Palmer, Cambridge, 1988, p. 80, no. 129, illustrated.

Exhibited

Sheffield, Graves Art Gallery, Works by Samuel Palmer, September - October 1961, no. 25.
Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, 1992 - April 2004, on loan.

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Lot Essay

Lister dates this unusual work by Samuel Palmer to circa 1830-32 however it is perhaps more likely to have been executed at the same time as other marine subjects or stormy scenes by the artist, for instance At Hailsham, Sussex: Storm approaching and a Study from nature: Storm approaching of 1821 (Lister, op.cit., pp. 32-33, nos. 30 and 31, illustrated), or the views in Devon with the sea in the distance, 1835 (Lister, op.cit., pp. 102-4, nos. 213-219, illustrated).
A group of later coast scenes executed in Cornwall in 1858 lack the energy of the present watercolour (Lister, op.cit., pp. 183-5, nos. 560-4, illustrated).

An inscription on a label on the backing gives the provenance before L.G. Duke.

For other works from this property see lots 8, 58.

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