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Description: | Oil on canvas. Beneath a dark sky, several boats are struggling on the rough seas of the English Channel. In the distance a view of the coast of Dover and Dover Castle can be seen above the famous white cliffs. While a red ensign flies from the stern of one of the large ships, a French flag flies from the smaller vessel.
In 2008, Christie’s auction house in London sold a set of four marine paintings by Frederick Calvert, each depicting a port in the English Channel. The scenes showed Folkestone, Ramsgate, Cowes and Dover. Strangely it is the painting of Ramsgate, rather than Dover, which relates to this work as it includes two virtually identical vessels viewed from the same angles and in a similarly rough sea. | Subjects: | hill topography seascape/coastal scene ensign (ship) rowing boat ship cliff wave cloud castle barrel | Temporal: | c.1820; 1815/1825 | Source: | Government Art Collection | Creator: | Frederick Calvert | Identifier: | http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/work.aspx?... | Go to resource |
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