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N.R. OMELL'S ANNUAL MARINE PAINTINGS CATALOGUES
a series from 1974-2009 (17), all different; other marine painting exhibition catalogues (6), mostly Richard Green but also including Montague Dawson, The Royal Navy at War, 1939-45, Christopher Wade Gallery; together with miscellaneous maritime auction catalogues from Christie's, 1988-2012 (8) and Sotheby's, 1991-2008 (13); Bonham's Traditional River Craft (at Henley) catalogues (5) and four Christie's South Kensington catalogues of Shipping Posters, no duplicates, fine
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This lot will be available for viewing at Imperial Road
£80-120
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CHRISTIE'S (NEW YORK) MARITIME CATALOGUES
a complete run of Christie's (New York) Maritime catalogues, 1995-2003, inclusive; and similar complete runs for Christie's (Amsterdam), 1997-2001; and Phillips (London), 1993-2001, all as issued, with official price lists
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This lot will be available for viewing at Imperial Road
£80-120
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MANNER OF LUDOLF BAKHUIZEN (DUTCH, 1631-1708)
Dutch shipping in a channel swell
Oil on panel
7¼ x 9½in. (18 x 23.5cm.)
£200-400
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ATTRIBUTED TO CHARLES MARTIN POWELL (BRITISH, 1775-1824)
Dutch fishing craft and a man-of-war
Oil on panel
15¼ x 18in. (38.5 x 46cm.)
£1000-1500
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JAMES FRANCIS DANBY (BRITISH, 1816-1875)
Beach scene, Hastings, at sunset
Signed 'J. Danby' (lower right)
Oil on canvas
7 x 11½in. (18 x 29cm.)
£500-800
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DUDLEY HARDY RI (BRITISH, 1866-1922)
Near Etaple, coast of France
Signed 'Dudley Hardy' (lower right)
Gouache
6½ x 4¾in. (16 x 12.5cm.)
£80-120
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EDUARD ADAMS (FRENCH, 1847-1929)
Shipping off the coast with a rowing boat in the foreground
Signed 'E. Adams' (lower left)
Watercolour heightened with colour
10¼ x 17¼in. (26 x 44cm.)
£300-500
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AFTER ARTHUR BRISCOE (BRITISH, 1873-1943)
Manning the pumps
Signed in the plate and dated '31' (lower right)
Etching
Pl 12 x 9in. (30.5 x 23cm.)
£200-300
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AFTER ARTHUR BRISCOE (BRITISH, 1873-1943)
Furling the foresail
Signed in pencil 'Arthur Briscoe' (lower right) and numbered 2/75 (lower left)
Etching
Pl 7¾ x 11½in. (20 x 29.5cm.)
£200-300
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ENGLISH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1900
Shipping at the entrance at a harbour
Oil on board
Each 11½ x 19½in. (29 x 50cm.)
(2, a pair)
£200-300
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Attributed to Reuben Chappell (BRITISH, 1870-1940)
A three-masted ship in coastal waters with a pilot cutter approaching
Pen and black ink and watercolour heightened with white
18 x 31½in. (45.8 x 80cm.)
£400-600
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ALEXANDER KAY BRANDEN (BRITISH, Fl. 1865-1905)
The topsail schooner 'Railway'
Signed and inscribed 'A.K. Branden, Falmouth'
Oil on canvas
18¾ x 26½in. (47 x 67.5cm.)
£500-700
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C.S. Trout (BRITISH, 19TH-CENTURY)
The Yawl 'Louisa of Exeter' R. Chapman, off the Lizard October 3rd 1878
Signed 'S. Trout' and inscribed with title (lower right)
Oil on canvas
20 x 27in. (51 x 68.5cm.)
£500-700
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NICHOLAS MATTHEW CONDY (BRITISH, 1793-1857)
Shipping in a calm Plymouth Sound
Signed 'N. Condy' (lower right)
Gouache
4 x 6in. (10 x 16cm.)
£300-500
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HAROLD PERCIVAL (BRITISH, 1868-1914)
The Clipper Ship 'Valhalla'
Signed and dated 'H. Percival 1904' (lower left)
Watercolour with scratching out
8¾ x 13in. (22 x 33.5cm.)
£200-400
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WILLIAM LIONEL WYLLIE (BRITISH, 1851-1931)
Thames Barge Race 1927
Signed and date 'W.L. Wyllie 1927' (lower right in pencil)
Watercolour
7 x 12¾in. (17.5 x 32.5cm.)
£600-900
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RICHMOND W. MARKES (ENGLISH, LATE 19TH-CENTURY)
Shipping off Leigh-on-Sea
Signed 'R. Markes' (lower left)
Watercolour
6¾ x 11½in. (17 x 29.5cm.)
Together with a portrait of the steam vessel Soho by James Miller Huggins
(2)
£150-250
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GEORGE MEARS (BRITISH, 1865-1910)
The London Brighton & South Coast Railway Co. channel ferry 'Prince Arthur'
Signed and dated 'G. Mears '96' (lower right)
Oil on canvas
11½ x 23in. (29 x 58.5cm.)
Built by Denny Bros. of Dumbarton for the London Brighton and South Coast Railway Co., she was ordered in October 1895 and delivered in July 1896 for a total cost of £20,296. A handsome vessel with raked twin pole masts, she registered 705 tons and her two triple expansion engines gave her a very satisfactory service speed just shy of 16 knots. She was transferred to the South Eastern and Chatham Railway in 1901, renamed Deal, and served a further twenty-five years before being sold to Youngs of Sunderland for breaking in 1926.
£400-600
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THOMAS BUSH HARDY (1842-1897)
Coming into port
Inscribed with title, signed and dated 'T.B. Hardy 1895' (lower left)
Watercolour
8¾ x 14in. (22 x 35cm.)
£200-300
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WILLIAM LIONEL WYLLIE (BRITISH, 1851-1931)
Mucking light
Signed and inscribed 'Mucking Light, W.L. Wyllie' (lower right)
Watercolour
5 x 18½in. (13 x 47cm.)
£500-700
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RICHARD HENRY NEVILLE-CUMMING (BRITISH, FL. 1888-1891)
The steamer 'Ameer' and the barque 'Sindia' off Gibraltar
Signed and dated 'H Neville-Cumming/1889' (lower right)
Pen and brown ink and watercolour heightened with white
25½ x 50½in. (64.8 x 128.3cm.)
Provenance: with The Boydell Galleries, Liverpool.
Although her career provided no particular excitement, Ameer has assumed her small place in shipping history as the first steamer to be ordered for the venerable firm of Brocklebanks when the company realised that the changeover from sail had become inevitable. Built by Harland & Wolff at Belfast in 1889, Ameer was designed as a four-masted steamer and given a barquentine rig to augment her single screw. Registered at 4,127 tons gross (2,689 net) and measuring 400½ feet in length with a 45 foot beam, she was engined by her builders and had a cruising speed of 10 knots. Launched on 24th August 1889 and completed that October, she entered service on the London - India via Suez route and, as the first steamer in the fleet, was commanded by Captain Ray, the company's Marine Superintendent. In 1906 she was transferred to Jenkins' Shire Line, in which Brocklebanks had a half-share, and renamed Cardiganshire, the name she retained when she was transferred again to the Royal Mail Line's fleet in 1907. Sold by Shire to Japanese owners in 1911, she was thereafter renamed on several more occasions before being scrapped in Hong Kong in 1923
£2500-4000
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RICHARD HENRY NEVILLE-CUMMING (BRITISH, FL. 1888-1891)
The four-masted barque 'Sindia' under shortened sail in the Channel
Signed and dated 'H Neville-Cumming/1888.' (lower right)
Pen and brown ink and watercolour heightened with white
26 x 51in. (66 x 130cm.)
Provenance: with The Boydell Galleries, Liverpool
Built for the famous house of Brocklebank by Harland & Wolff at Belfast in 1887, Sindia was a huge four-masted barque which, at the time of her completion, was the largest sailing vessel in the world. Registered at 3,067 tons gross (5,000 deadweight) and measuring 329 feet in length with a 45 foot beam, she was designed with two decks and, consequently, had vast cargo capacity. Intended for the Calcutta trade at a time when most other owners had already gone over to steam, Sindia left Liverpool on her maiden voyage to Calcutta on 6th February 1888 and immediately proved faster than her carrying capacity might have suggested. Although no record-breaker, she had a fine turn of speed and possessed all the handsome elegance of many earlier Belfast ships which turned heads wherever she went. Finally ousted from the Calcutta trade by steam, she became a bulk grain carrier for a few years until 1900 when, along with all the remaining Brocklebank sailing vessels, she was sold out of their fleet
Purchased by the Anglo-American Oil Company, she was converted to carry 'case oil' (oil in drums) on outward passages and chrome ore back into the U.S.A. Sadly, her new career proved short-lived when, on 15th December 1901, she was driven ashore and wrecked at Ocean City, 95 miles south of New York on the coast of New Jersey. Inbound for New York from Kobe, she was caught in a severe winter blizzard and had been trying to run for shelter in Delaware Bay when she stranded. Various attempts to refloat her were unsuccessful and although the greater part of her cargo was salved, the ship herself was declared a total loss and her decaying hull became a local landmark for many years
£2000-3000
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δ NORMAN THOMAS JANES RWS RE RSMA (BRITISH, 1892-1980)
The Pool of London
Signed 'Norman Janes' (lower right)
Watercolour
13 x 19in. (33 x 48.5cm.)
£200-300
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JOHN HAYES (EDWARD FLETCHER) (BRITISH, 1857-1945)
The Pool of London, Tower Bridge and St Paul's beyond
Signed 'John Hayes' (lower left)
Oil on canvas
17¼ x 31in. (44 x 78.5cm.)
£400-600
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William Th. Martin HAWKSWORTH (BRITISH, 1853-1935)
River Scene. The Medway (No.3)
Signed 'W.T.M. Hawksworth' (on bow of barge, lower left) with artists manuscript and Royal Academy of Arts labels for 1887 to reverse.
Watercolour
5½ x 8½in. (14 x 21.5cm.)
£200-300
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William Mackenzie Thomson (british, FL.1870-1892)
The Guion Line armed merchant cruiser 'Oregon' under way, circa 1885
Signed 'W.M.Thomson / New Brompton' (lower left)
Watercolour heightened with white
11 x 17in. (28 x 34cm.)
The S.S. Oregon was built by John Roach and Son in Chester, PA and owned by the Oregon Steamship Company. On 7th October 1883 the Oregon embarked on her maiden voyage from England to New Jersey, a passage which took a record setting 6 days, 10 hours, and 40 minutes. For part of 1885 she was briefly armed during the "Russian Scare" and it is in this configuration she is depicted here. On 6th March 1886 the Oregon departed Liverpool, England for New York. The voyage was cut short when only eight days later and five miles from her destination she was struck on the port side by a three-masted schooner. The schooner's identity remains unknown however evidence exists to suggest that it was the Charles H. Morse. All aboard the schooner perished and the remains of the ship and its passengers have never been found. It was determined after surveillance that the Oregon was too damaged for salvage
£150-250
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Antonio DE SIMONE (ITALIAN, 1851-1907)
The S.Y. 'Nahma'
Signed and dated 'De Simone 1894' (lower right)
Watercolour heightened with white
16 x 23¼in. (40.5 x 59cm.)
£300-500
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Antonio DE SIMONE (ITALIAN, 1851-1907)
The S.Y. 'St George'
Signed and dated 'De Simone 94' (lower right); and inscribed as per title (lower left)
Watercolour heightened with white
16 x 23in. (40.5 x 58.5cm.)
£250-350
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Antonio de Simone (ITALIAN, 1851-1907)
A topsail schooner of the Royal Yacht Squadron in the Mediterranean off Naples
Signed and dated 'De Simone 91.' (lower right)
Bodycolour, oval
18 x 24in. (46 x 61cm.)
£600-800
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English School, 19th-century
The Ocean Match with the yachts 'Red Rover', Wanderer' and 'Kiama', 27th August, 1878 (illustrated); and The Match with the yachts 'Red Rover' and 'Kiama' at Yarmouth Roads Regatta
Both inscribed as title and further extensively inscribed (under the mount)
Pen and black ink and watercolour
9¼ x 13in. (23.5 x 33cm.)
(2, a pair)
£300-500
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William LIONEL WYLLIE (BRITISH, 1851-1931)
Yacht race
Signed in pencil 'W.L. Wyllie' (lower left)
Etching
10 x 15in. (25.5 x 38.5cm.)
£150-250
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δ NEVILLE SOTHEBY PITCHER RSMA (BRITISH, 1889-1959)
Yacht racing on a beam reach
Signed and indistinctly dated 'N Sotheby Pitcher' (lower right)
Watercolour and gouache
13¼ x 10in. (33.5 x 25.5cm.)
£500-700
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CHARLES DIXON (BRITISH, 1872-1934)
The 1901 America's Cup; a set of three pen and ink drawings comprising 'The Start', 'At the First Stake' and 'The Finish'
Two signed, with yacht names and inscriptions throughout including Shamrock and Columbia
Pen and ink
8 x 12¼in. (20.5 x 31cm.)
(3, a set)
£2000-3000
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CHARLES DIXON (BRITISH, 1872-1934)
1902 Rothesay Regatta, with Sir Thomas Lipton's yacht 'Shamrock', his steam yacht 'Erin' and other shipping
Signed, inscribed and dated 'Charles Dixon, Rothesay Bay '02'
Watercolour and gouache
5¼ x 11½in. (13.5 x 29cm.)
£600-900
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Arthur Briscoe (British, 1873-1943)
The Royal Yacht 'Britannia' racing off Cowes
Signed 'A. Briscoe .33' (lower right)
Watercolour
6½ x 9½in. (16.5 x 24cm.)
Provenance: With the Tryon Galleries, London
£400-600
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δ MICHAEL VAUGHAN (British, 1938-2002)
Flying with the Wind
Signed 'Michael Vaughan' (lower left)
Oil on canvas laid on board
22½ x 33½in. (56 x 85cm.)
£1000-1500
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CHARLES DIXON (BRITISH, 1872-1934)
Admiral Jellicoe's flagship H.M.S. 'Iron Duke' with escorting destroyers leading the Grand Fleet into action at the Battle of Jutland, 31st May, 1916
Signed and dated 'Charles Dixon 1916' (lower left)
27½ x 37½in. (70 x 95cm.)
The Battle of Jutland (31st May - 1st June 1916) was the last occasion on which two great battle fleets engaged each other in full strength - numbering some 250 ships in total. Rather than being a single decisive battle however, it was, in fact, a series of smaller engagements spread over many hours during which the two fleets separated into their constituent parts. Although the opening salvoes were fired at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon of 31st May, the main action began at about 6 o'clock that evening and continued until the following day.
£4000-6000
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ANTONIO de Simone (ITALIAN, 1851-1907)
H.M.S. 'Surprise' off Naples, 1895
Signed and dated 'De Simone/- 95 -' (lower right) and inscribed 'H.M.S. Surprise' (lower left)
Bodycolour
10 x 17in. (26 x 43cm.)
A dispatch vessel built by Palmer's of Jarrow in 1885, Surprise (and her yard sister Alacrity) displaced 1650 tons, were 250 x 32ft, manned by 93 officers and crew and could develop nearly 18kts. Originally unarmed, they were given a gun so they could be used as fleet scouts in Wartime and were also given elaborate accommodation for diplomats and visiting high ranking officers. She was broken up in 1919.
£400-600
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William Mackenzie Thomson (british, FL. 1870-1892)
H.M.S. 'Calypso'; H.M.S. 'Nelson'
Watercolour and gouache
11 x 17¼in. (28 x 44cm.)
(2)
Calypso was a steel corvette of 1883 and one of the first ships fitted with a protective deck, she survived until 1922; Nelson was an armoured cruiser of 1881 which served on the Australia station until 1889, then undergoing a long refit which added fighting tops to her fore and mizzen masts, so this picture must date from her Australian service. She was sold in 1910.
£250-350
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WILLIAM LIONEL WYLLIE (BRITISH, 1851-1931)
Motor Launch 'ML141'
Signed 'W.L. Wyllie' (lower left) and signed on verso by John Wyllie
Watercolour heightened with gouache
11 x 17¼in. (28 x 44cm.)
£500-700
A new vessel type when introduced in 1915, these motor launches quickly proved versatile workhorses being used for mine sweeping, mine laying, anti-submarine operations, patrols and smoke screens etc. Nearly 600 were built by various yards - initially displacing 34 tons then 37 tons, they were 80 foot long with a 12¾ foot beam and 4 foot draught. Powered by petrol engines they could develop 20kts but also had a habit of catching fire and more were lost to accident than the enemy. They paved the way for the more famous MTBs used in World War II. ML141 survived the War without incident so it is assumed this picture was commissioned by one of her crew
£400-600
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A GROUP OF WARSHIP ETCHINGS INCLUDING WORKS BY WILIAM L. WYLLIE, ROWLAND LANGMAID AND FRANK H. MASON
Works by Wyllie comprising of 'Battleship in Portsmouth Harbour' signed etching; 'Battleship and Torpedo Boats at Sea' signed etching; and a signed print 'Off Portsmouth'; works by Langmaid comprising 'Portsmouth Harbour' and 'Battleships', both signed; and Frank H. Mason including signed etching of Torpedo boats and signed print of torpedo boats (faded)
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£400-600
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δ John Bentham Dinsdale (BRITISH, 1927-2008)
A Frigate action between 'Lively' and 'Tourterelle', 13th March 1795
Signed 'John Bentham Dinsdale' in pencil (lower left) and inscribed with title (lower right)
Watercolour and gouache
7¾ x 10¾in. (19.5 27.5cm.)
£100-200
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δ Timothy Thompson (British, B. 1951)
English and Dutch warships off the Dutch coast
Signed 'Tim Thompson' (lower left)
Oil on canvas
20 x 30in. (51 x 76cm.)
£400-600
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JOHN CLEVELEY THE YOUNGER (british, 1747-1786)
An English frigate with a Dutch man-of-war in the Downs off Dover
Watercolour
4¾ x 6¼in. (12 x 16cm.)
£300-500
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CIRCLE OF SAMUEL OWEN (BRITISH, 1768-1857)
A British frigate and other shipping in a heavy swell
Watercolour
3 x 4¼in. (8 x 11.5cm.)
Together with another circle of Samuel Owen Hauling in the nets
(2)
£150-250
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CHARLES JOHN DE LACY (BRITISH, 1856-1929)
Warships of the Royal Navy preparing to depart for action
Watercolour heighten with body colour
14½ x 29¼in. (37 x 74cm.)
£600-900
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δ ROWLAND LANGMAID (BRITISH, 1897-1956)
H.M.S. 'Victory' at sea
Signed in pencil 'Rowland Langmaid' (lower right)
Etching
11¾ x 7¾in. (30 x 20cm.)
£50-80
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CHARLES W. FOTHERGILL (BRITISH, 19TH CENTURY)
Cadet training ship H.M.S. 'Britannia' at Dartmouth
Signed with initials, inscribed and dated 'H.M.S. Britannia C.W.F. 1901' (lower right)
Watercolour
13 x 19½in. (33 x 49.5cm.)
£600-800
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ARTHUR DAVID McCORMICK, RI (BRITSH, 1860-1943)
Sir Francis Drake at Cadiz
Signed 'A.D. McCormick' (lower right)
Oil on canvas laid down on board
29¼ x 23in. (74.5 x 58.5cm.)
£1000-1500
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ATTRIBUTED TO SAMUEL DRUMMOND, RAA (BRITISH, 1765-1844)
A boarding party
Oil on canvas
17¼ x 25¼in. (44 x 64cm.)
£1000-1500
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