Morning After a Heavy Gale

Morning After a Heavy Gale
Artist	Edward William Cooke
Year	1857
Type	Oil on canvas, maritime painting
Dimensions	94.6 cm× 126.3 cm(37.2 in× 49.7 in)
Location	Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas

Morning After a Heavy Gale is an oil painting by the British artist Edward William Cooke, from 1857. A seascape, it depicts the morning after a heavy storm, depicting the pilot boat and lifeboat of Ramsgate, in Kent, going to the assistance of an East Indiaman floundering in the Goodwin Sands, in the English Channel. ^[1]

Cooke was a follower although never a formal pupil of the marine painter Clarkson Frederick Stanfield. ^{[2] [3]} The painting was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1857 at the National Gallery in London. Today it is in theDallas Museum of Art. ^[4]

References

1. Payne p.158
2. Van der Merwe & Took p.172
3. Isham p.276
4. "Dallas Museum of Art".

Bibliography

• Isham, Howard F. Image of the Sea: Oceanic Consciousness in the Romantic Century. Peter Lang, 2004.
• Payne, Christiana. Where the Sea Meets the Land: Artists on the Coast in Nineteenth-century Britain. Sansom, 2007.
• Van der Merwe, Pieter & Took, Roger. The Spectacular Career of Clarkson Stanfield. Tyne and Wear County Council Museums, 1979.