Polly Cornthwaite
Senior Cataloguer
Lot 159AR
Montague Dawson(British, 1890-1973)'Rolling along, The Gleaner'
25 – 26 October 2022, 14:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £31,800 inc. premium
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Rhyanon Demery
Head of Sale
Montague Dawson (British, 1890-1973)
'Rolling along, The Gleaner'
signed 'MONTAGUE DAWSON' (lower left); inscribed (on the stretcher verso)
oil on canvas
61.6 x 92.1cm (24 1/4 x 36 1/4in).
signed 'MONTAGUE DAWSON' (lower left); inscribed (on the stretcher verso)
oil on canvas
61.6 x 92.1cm (24 1/4 x 36 1/4in).
Footnotes
Provenance
With Frost & Reed, London, no. 4733, (purchased directly from the artist 10 April 1931).
With MacConnal-Masson & Son Ltd., London.
Private collection, UK.
With Fortnum & Mason Ltd.
Exhibited
London, Bonhams, The Fortnum & Mason Collection, A Travelling Exhibition, 1 September- 20 November 2006, no. 16 illustrated in colour on p. 28.
The Gleaner (noted as the Gleanor in some sources) was built in John Currier Jnr.'s yard at Newburyport, Massachusetts, in 1854. First registered on 17th October that year at 999 tons American measurement (976 tons British), she was 176 feet in length with a 35 foot beam and was constructed with two decks. Originally owned by a consortium consisting of True and Ezekiel Choate, John and Samuel C. Currier, William Graves, Micajah Lunt and Charles Whitman, her first master was Micajah Lunt Jnr. who remained in command at least until 1859. That same year, Gleaner was sold to Page, Richardson & Co. of Boston who owned the Merchants' Line and operated a regular packet service from that port to Liverpool. Last registered in Boston in 1864, by which time she was owned by G.C. Trefort, she disappears from record thereafter, probably as a result of changing her name since there are no reports of any contemporary wreck named Gleaner.