File:Study for the painting of Bombardment of Algiers, 1816 RMG PW5973.jpg
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| Author |
George Chambers, Senior |
| Description |
English: Study for the painting of Bombardment of Algiers, 1816 Despite his humble origins in the north east of England, George Chambers became one of the most promising of the English marine painters of the 1830s, but died tragically young in 1840. One of his most important commissions was the large painting of the Bombardment of Algiers painted for Greenwich Hospital in 1836, twenty years after the event. Chambers took great pains to be accurate, even travelling to Plymouth to sketch men-of-war there. In the end, the picture was not well received by the naval community at Greenwich. Chambers' painting of the gunpowder smoke was criticised as well as the 'inky or purply haze' that the picture was thought to have. This study, one of several in the Museum's collection, shows Chambers' use of viewer's perspective which considerably increased the dramatic effect of the finished picture. |
| Date | 1836 |
| Dimensions | Sheet: 202 x 336 mm; Mount: 411 mm x 558 mm |
| Notes | Box Title: D189A. M2515-M2525, M2925. Exhibition: Masters of the Sea, 1987, Cat No 96. |
| Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/100800 |
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| Identifier | Acquisition Number: PR1976-59 Picture Department Petrel Project Number: M2515 Print Room Location Code: H 20.4 1840 id number: PAF5973 |
| Collection | Fine art |
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