Art Funded
Sea Battle (Untitled)
© The Beacon
Robert W Salmon (1775 - circa 1845)
The Beacon
1803
This painting depicts a night battle during the Napoleonic period between a French privateer, a Chasse-Marie and a merchant vessel built by the Brocklebank family of Whitehaven.
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 51 x 37 cm
- Art Fund Grant: £2500 ( Total: £16,000; Tax Remission)
- ArtFunded in: 1992
- Vendor: Sir Aubrey Brocklebank Bart
Provenance
Believed to have been commissioned by a member of the Brocklebank family; by descent to Sir Aubrey Brocklebank Bart.
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