Impressive Pair of English Naive School Nautical Paintings

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Impressive Pair of English Naive School Nautical Paintings

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Pair of oil on canvas. Schooner countess of Morley, William Sherriff Master, entering Leghorn Mole December 19th 1849 and William Sherriff Master, 1849. The schooner Countess of Morley started life as H.M.S.Kangeroo in 1805 and was much involved in the supression of the slave trade in West Africa and the Caribbean. She was sold out from the Royal Navy in 1815. Repaired and re-named The Countess of Morley, she was first owned by Rowe & Co. of Plymouth where no doubt she would have been registered. She was fitted out as a whaler between December 1815 and May 1816, and her hull was sheathed and coppered. When surveyed she was classified as A1 by Lloyds on the 1st or 2nd May 1816. Under the command of Captain H. Best she sailed from Plymouth on 4 May 1816 for the South Seas. She did much of her whaling off the coast of Peru and around the Galapagos Islands. After she returned to Plymouth in August 1825 she was sold to a person named Billing, who wasted no time in getting the ship back to sea as a general cargo vessel, as after a few weeks in port she sailed for St John, New Brunswick, Canada, arriving on 7 November. She returned to Plymouth on 19 January 1826, most probably loaded with timber. In March 1826 she sailed again from Plymouth for Buenos Aires and in May 1827 she sailed from Plymouth for Quebec. The last notice on the Countess of Morley is given in Lloyds Register of 22nd April 1828 which reads, 'The Countess of Morley proving leaky at Sierra Leone, has been obliged to discharge'. Most probably the repair cost was too high and she was abandoned. The date of 1849 on these two paintings would probably indicate a case of retrospective portrayal as we cannot find a record of another Countess of Morley existing at this date. Possibly commissioned by a descendant of the master, this fine pair of paintings present a romantic ideal of this armed schooner in her earlier splendour.

Dimensions:
Height: 34 in (86.36 cm)Width: 39 in (99.06 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
Sold As:
Set of 2
Style:
Folk Art (Of the Period)
Place of Origin:
England
Period:
1840-1849
Date of Manufacture:
1849
Condition:
Dimensions listed include the frame.
Seller Location:
Wiscasset, ME
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU101769434783