Mark Richard Myers, R.S.M.A. (San Mateo, California b.1945)

The Fifth Rate H.M.S. Southampton leading the fleet into the Solent off the Needles

Details

Mark Richard Myers, R.S.M.A. (San Mateo, California b.1945)
The Fifth Rate H.M.S. Southampton leading the fleet into the Solent off the Needles
signed 'Mark Myers -' (lower right) and further signed and inscribed 'The "Southampton" Frigate/Off the Needles/by/Mark R. Myers, R.S.M.A.' (on an artist's label attached to the backboard)
pen and brown ink and watercolour heightened with white and with scratching out, on paper
14 x 21 ½ in. (35.6 x 54.6 cm.)

Exhibited

Southampton, Southampton Art Gallery, Southampton Festival Exhibition of Marine Painting, 2 July - 29 August 1982.

Lot Essay

Designed by Thomas Slade, the Fifth Rate H.M.S. Southampton was the name ship of the 32-gun 'Southampton Class' frigates of the Royal Navy. Built by Robert Inwood at Rotherhithe and launched in 1757, she was present at the battle of Cape St. Vincent (1797). Serving for more than half a century, she was wrecked on 27^t^h November 1812, on a reef of rocks off Conception Island in the Bahamas.

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