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Indiaman in the Thames RMG BHC1228
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Indiaman in the Thames
Knell was one of the leading and most accomplished marine painters in 19th-century Britain, with paintings in the Royal Collection. This grandly ambitious and dramatic canvas demonstrates why. It shows a battered and storm-damaged Indiaman, just returned from the East into the Thames, against a glowing golden sky from which the clouds are now receding. Like Henry O’Neil’s ‘The Parting Cheer’ (ZBA4022), it implicitly points to the larger imperial context of maritime Victorian Britain, and the uncertainties and anxieties associated with it.
The two vessels bow-on in the right distance are both Royal Naval ships, one traditional - a sailing three-decker - and the other apparently a new steam-assisted iron-clad, emphasizing the theme of changing times. The picture may be one that Knell exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1864 (no.148), entitled 'On the Medway - bringing a disabled ship into port', and if so the location is likely to be the naval anchorage off the Nore sands looking west, with the mouth of the Medway concealed behind the damaged Indiaman.
Indiamen in the Thames
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