Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Peter Monamy, 1681–1749, British
Title:
An English Royal Yacht Standing Offshore in a Calm
Date:
ca. 1730
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
27 3/4 × 37 7/8 inches (70.5 × 96.2 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed, brown paint, lower left: "P Monamy"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, The U Collection. In appreciation of Choh Shiu and Man Foo U, loving parents, and Dorothea and Frank Cockett, dear friends
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B2008.30.8
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
rowboats | clouds | seamen | yacht | flags | ships | men | sloops (sailing vessels) | full-rigged ships | longboats | shore (landform) | marine art | sea | cutter
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Spreading Canvas - Eighteenth - Century British Marine Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-09-09 - 2016-12-04)

Seascapes - Marine Paintings and Watercolors from the U Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 2009-05-28 - 2009-08-23)
Publications:
Laura Beach, Spreading Canvas : Eighteenth-Centry British Marine Painting, Antiques and the Arts Weekly, vol. 48, Bee Publishing Company, Newtown, November 4, 2016, p. 31, Vertical File V 2718 (YCBA)

Christie, Manson & Woods, Christie's Sale Catalogue: Maritime. Thursday, 25 May 2006, Christie's, 2006, p. 133, Lot 505, Sales catalogues (YCBA)

Eleanor Hughes, Seascapes : marine paintings and watercolors from the U Collection [wall labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2009, p. [2], V 2165 (YCBA)

Eleanor Hughes, Spreading Canvas : Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2016, Frontispiece, p. 160, cat. 20, ND 1373.G74 S67 2016 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:60740