Charles Brooking (1723-1759)

Charles Brooking (1723-1759)

Coastal landscape with a fishing boat ashore

Signed C Brooking (lower left)

Oil on canvas

25.7 x 35.8cm; 10 x 14in

Provenance:

Colnaghi, London, 1958;

Miss Donner

Literature:

Col M. H. Grant, Old English Landscape Painters, 1925 (illustrated);

Burlington Magazine, February 1958 (illustrated);

David Joel, Charles Brooking 1723-1759 and the 18th Century British Marine Painters (Antiques Collectors' Club, 2000), p.135, cat. no.103B, p.137 (illustrated)

Exhibited:

Aldeburgh, Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts, and Bristol, Bristol City Art Gallery, Paul Mellon Foundation for British Art, Charles Brooking, 1723 - 1759, Paintings, Drawings and Engravings, June-July 1966, no.47