Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
John Berney Crome, 1794–1842, British
Title:
Sailing Boats and Barges on a Dutch(?) Estuary
Date:
ca. 1825
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
34 × 48 inches (86.4 × 121.9 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.186
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
ocean | brig | water | sea | rowboat | estuary | men | boats | barges | sails | Dutch | marine art
Associated Places:
Netherlands | Europe
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Behold the Sea (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-06-14 - 2003-09-07)
Publications:
British Art at Yale, Apollo, v.105, April 1977, p. 291, fig. 12, N1 .A54 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Malcolm Cormack, A Selective Promenade, Apollo, v.105, April 1977, p. 291, fig. 12, N1 A54 + (YCBA)

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 74-75, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
John Berney Crome was the son of John Crome, who cofounded the Norwich Society of Artists in 1803. As artists, both father and son were much influenced by seventeenth-century Dutch landscape painters, as well as J. M. W. Turner. Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:696