File:The ship 'Matilda' and cutter 'Zephyr' RMG BHC3481.tiff
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[edit]James Miller Huggins: The ship 'Matilda' and cutter 'Zephyr' | |||||||||||||||||
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James Miller Huggins |
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painting object_type QS:P31,Q3305213 |
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Description |
English: The ship 'Matilda' and cutter 'Zephyr' Ship portrait. Oil painting entitled 'The ship "Matilda" and cutter "Zephyr" ', the ships being identified by the names on the flags shown. These are common names but the painting is from the Green Collection and George Green did own a South Sea whaler called 'Matilda' , which he bought in 1829-30 to begin his involvement in that trade. It first figures in Lloyds Register for 1830 as of 483 tons, built in one of the Royal Dockyards in 1813 and insured as class E1 for voyages from London to the South Seas: what the Navy built and previously used it as is not yet clear but possibly a ship-rigged sloop. Both Green and his father-in-law William Perry, in whose Blackwall yard he was first apprenticed and in which he later became partner and head of himself, commissioned paintings of ships which they built or owned, so this is fairly certainly his 'Matilda'. The identification is supported by the green-painted boat on davits aft on her port side, and two or possibly three upturned on skids on deck, since these also look like whaleboats. The 'Zephyr' under her stern is almost certainly a pilot cutter operating out of Gravesend on the lower Thames, which is seen on the right, with Tilbury Fort on the left (north) bank. Most pantings of whalers show them well at sea, often in distant locations, so this is also an unusual location, perhaps marking the first or at least an early departure of 'Matilda' from the Thames in Green's ownership. The painting is signed by J. M. Huggins who was the elder of two artist sons of William John Huggins, who painted two other of Green's whalers for him, 'Vigilant' and 'Harpooner' (BHC3390). James Huggins was baptized in 1807, was still working in 1865, and clearly learnt his trade from his father from the similarity of their styles, although almost nothing else is known of him. His younger brother John W. Huggins (baptized 1809) etched some drawings after their father's work into the 1830s. |
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Date | probably 1830s | ||||||||||||||||
Medium | oil on canvas | ||||||||||||||||
Dimensions | Frame: 789 mm x 1091 mm x 56 mm;Painting: 660 mm x 760 mm | ||||||||||||||||
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institution QS:P195,Q7374509 |
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BHC3481 |
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Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/14954 | ||||||||||||||||
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Identifier InfoField | id number: BHC3481 | ||||||||||||||||
Collection InfoField | Green Blackwall collection |
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