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Charles Napier Hemy, RA RWS
(British, 1841-1917)
Running for home

The Marine Sale

7 October 2015, 14:00 BST

London, Knightsbridge

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Charles Napier Hemy, RA RWS (British, 1841-1917)

Running for home
oil on canvas
51 x 76cm (20 1/16 x 29 15/16in).

Footnotes

This oil painting of the fishermen running home with their catch is indicative of Charles Hemy's later work from 1910 – 17. Hemy's mature style of painting included using more expressive, impressionist brush strokes to create the maximum effect of movement. In this case using it to depict the speed of the working boats as they glided across the water. Compared with other paintings of a similar subject such as 'Home Wind' or 'Bringing home the catch' (1913), this painting shows the fishermen sailing fast with the stern of their boat out of the water. The misty, squally sky and white water which is breaking over the side of their boat, shows they are in bad weather and rough seas. This painting echoes other titles he gave works on similar subjects such as 'Inspite of Wind and Weather'(1911) and 'Blowing Hard' (1914).

This painting also shows Hemy's confidence in creating a cut off composition with only the back half of the boat with a corner of the full sail visible to the far left of the canvas, another device created to imply speed. He uses the fishing boats in the distance which are veiled by mist, rain and spray separated from the foreground boat by a cresting wave, to give a sense of scale and direction.

Painted around Falmouth, where Hemy was based from 1881, this painting is evidence of his painting being informed by drawing and observing actual scenes on the water from his floating studio the Vendermeer.

We are grateful to Catherine Wallace for her assistance in cataloguing this lot.

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