File:John Thomas Serres - The Thames at Shillingford.jpg
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John Thomas Serres: The Thames at Shillingford
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| Title |
The Thames at Shillingford  |
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| Object type | painting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description |
English: A landscape showing Keen Edge, Shillingford, in Oxfordshire, with Dorchester Abbey visible in the distance. The River Thames is in the foreground and the artist has included examples of the types of boat that would have been familiar on the Thames. There are three different Thames craft, two spritsail 'upstream' barges used for trading with London together with a flat lighter-barge carrying hay. In the foreground is a fishing boat known as a Peter boat which was a common sight on the River Thames and its estuary, its main characteristic being possession of a fish well in the centre, where the catch was kept alive until landed. The idealized setting evokes Dutch 17th-century landscape painting and the pronounced reflections reinforce an air of stillness and unreality. |
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| Date | 1823 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | oil on canvas | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | height: 104.2 cm (41 in); width: 137.5 cm (54.1 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current location |
Queens House |
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| Accession number |
BHC1105 |
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| Credit line | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. Caird Fund. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Inscriptions |
Signature and date on the stern of the hay barge: J T Serres pinxt 1823
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| Notes |
English: The artist was the son of Dominic Serres and although he began his career as a landscape painter he followed the pattern set by his father. He travelled to Paris, Rome and Naples before he succeeded his father as Marine Painter to George III in 1793. He favoured painting sea-pieces in the European tradition and after becoming Marine Draughtsman to the Admiralty in 1800 made drawings of the coasts of France and Spain published in his book, 'The Little Sea Torch', in 1801. In 1805 he also published 'Liber Nauticus', a treatise on marine draughtsmanship containing engravings of his father's drawings. He was eventually ruined by the bizarre and extravagant behaviour of his wife, a self-deluding fantasist who styled herself 'Princess Olive of Cumberland'. He died in debtors' prison, after creating a set of large watercolours recording his experiences there. The painting is signed and dated on the stern of the hay barge, 'J T Serres pinxt 1823'. |
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| References | Royal Museums Greenwich | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| current | 20:40, 7 November 2018 | | 3,800 × 2,933 (2.22 MB) | Trzęsacz | similar source; http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/12597.html |
| 02:51, 31 October 2011 |  | 2,500 × 1,930 (317 KB) | Botaurus | == {{int:filedesc}} == {{Artwork |artist=John Thomas Serres |title=''The Thames at Shillingford'' |description={{en|A landscape showing Keen Edge, Shillingford, in Oxfordshire, with Dorchester Abbey visible in the distance. The River Thames is in the fore |
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