| Portsmouth Harbour: The Hulks | |
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| Artist | Edward William Cooke |
| Year | 1836 |
| Type | Oil on panel, maritime painting |
| Dimensions | 29.9 cm× 40.6 cm(11.8 in× 16.0 in) |
| Location | Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
Portsmouth Harbour: The Hulks is an oil on canvas landscape painting by the British artist Edward William Cooke, from 1836.
Depicting a scene of the British naval base of Portsmouth, it includes former French frigate Étoile captured by the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars and now reduced to a hulk. [1] [2] Cooke was a protégé of the artist Clarkson Stanfield, who became known for his maritime scenes. [3] Stanfield had also painted the port in his 1831 work Portsmouth Harbour . [4]
The painting was displayed at the British Institution's annual exhibition held at Pall Mall in 1837 and an engraving was produced based on it. [5] It was acquired by the art collector John Sheepshanks. Today is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington having been acquired as part of a major gift by Sheepshanks in 1857. [6]
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