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Ref: 2692
Good example of English folk art, and with some background history, a predominantly blue painted watercolour scene of galleon shipwreck in a dramatic tempest with smugglers in period dress in the foreground.
The painting is professionally mounted behind glass in a smart Victorian pine frame backed by horizontal pine boards and original disintegrating backing paper. On the paper an old label reads, "Painted by Great Grandfather Thomas Orange Wigington Shipston On Stour Warwickshire. Frame made by his Grandson Orange Wigington." The eye for colour is good and the composition too with spacious grey sky in storm dominanting and this composition marries well to the story teller's art, the grand galleon barely visible consumed in muscular blue waves just like the one in Breugel's 'Icarus'.
There is something here of the feel of later 18th century illustrational watercolours of Blake and his contemporaries.
In fact the Wigington family were cabinet makers and artists known in Shipston from 1748.
English 18th cent.
H: 50cm (19.7in)
W: 39cm (15.4in)
D: 2cm (0.8in)
£1150
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