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Lot 94*

Charles Brooking
(British, 1723-1759)
The wreck of the Nuestra Senora off Beachy Head, November 1746

1 May 2019, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

£2,500 - £3,500

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Charles Brooking (British, 1723-1759)

The wreck of the Nuestra Senora off Beachy Head, November 1746
signed 'C Brooking' (lower centre)
oil on canvas
28 x 38cm (11 x 14 15/16in).

Footnotes

Provenance
With The Parker Gallery, London.
Sotheby's, 13 March 1985, lot 22.
Private collection, US.

Exhibited
Mellon Foundation, Aldeburgh/Bristol, June/July 1966, no. 20.

Literature
David Joel, Charles Brooking (1723-1759) and the 18th Century British Marine Painters, Woodbridge, 2000, p.165, no.402, illustrated on p.160.

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