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, Texas

Morning After a Heavy Gale is an 1857 oil painting by the British artist Edward William Cooke. A seascape, it depicts the morning after a heavy storm, it shows 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 celebrated marine painter Clarkson Stanfield. ^{[2] [3]} The painting was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1857 at the National Gallery in London. Today it is in the collection of the Dallas Museum of Art in Texas. ^[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.