Live Auction 10730Victorian, Pre Raphaelite & British Impressionist Art, Maritime Art, Sporting & Wildlife Art
Charles Brooking (1723-1759)
Lot 131

Charles Brooking (1723-1759)

An English two-decker of forty guns riding at anchor off a coast with a galliot close by and five men-o'war beyond

Closed8 July 2015

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GBP 92,500

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Charles Brooking (1723-1759)
An English two-decker of forty guns riding at anchor off a coast with a galliot close by and five men-o'war beyond
oil on canvas, in a carved and gilded frame
22 x 28 in. (55.9 x 71.1 cm.)

Major A.D. Houston.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 21 November 1980, lot 123.
with Hahn Fine Art, London.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 13 July 1994, lot 1 (as Peter Monamy).

Specialist note

Although sold as Peter Monamy in 1994 the attribution of painting has been revised by David Joel to Charles Brooking, and the picture is included as no. 39C in his monograph of Brooking's work.