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Description: | This painting by George Chambers Junior, relates to Admiral Sir Edward Augustus Inglefield?s search for the missing Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin in 1852.The depiction of the steamer ?Isabel? sailing across glassy green Arctic waters scattered with ice floating beneath an atmospherically lit sky could be influenced by the depiction of the same vessel lying off Deptford (BHC3419) by George Chambers Senior.
The artist George Chambers Junior (active 1848-1862) was a son of George Chambers Senior (1803-40). On his father's death he was admitted, aged 11, to the Greenwich Hospital School on the recommendation of E.H. Locker, the Hospital Secretary and one of his father's patrons. This suggests he may subsequently have gone to sea, since this was a general condition of entry. He painted attractive oil sketches of the Thames in a rather fluid medium but his larger pictures are less accomplished than his father's. Later in life he worked in South America but where and when he died has never been resolved, though he was still alive in 1870. An anecdotal report that he was killed in a riot in Trinidad around 1900 has not been substantiated.
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caption: The Yacht 'Isabel' on the First Voyage into Smith Sound | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Isabel Isabel 1836 paintings | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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