The Coming Storm: A Fishing Boat Making for Home off Whitby

1840

Anthony Vandyck Copley Fielding

Artist, British, 1787 - 1855

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor over traces of graphite with scratching out

  • Credit Line

    Gift of James Mackinnon

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 63.7 × 91.9 cm (25 1/16 × 36 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2022.151.1


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Possibly J. P. Theobald, Esq. [died c. 1894], Kingston-on-Thames; (possibly his sale, Christie's, London, 28 May 1894, no. 55, as "Off Whitby, Storm Coming On"); (Thomas Agnew & Sons, London). Humphrey Roberts, Esq., Queens Gate, London; George J. Gould, New Jersey, 1904; probably by inheritance through Edith Gould Martin to Guy Martin, Jr., Washington, D.C.; (sale, Weschler's, Rockville, 20 February 2015, no. 271). (sale, Weschler's, 13 December, 2019, no. 296, bought in); (James MacKinnon, London); gift to NGA, 2022.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1901

  • The Water Colour Art of the 19th Century, The Fine Art Society, London, 1901, no. 80.

2023

  • Drawing in Britain, 1700 - 1900: New Additions to the Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2023.

Inscriptions

lower left in watercolor: Copley Fielding / 1840


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