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1781年 Terkild Enanuel Lonning(1762-1823) 亞速爾群島的瑞典及丹麥船隻 鋼筆水墨及水粉 有框
Provenance: Martyn Gregory, London
Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg, 'Skibsportraetter gennem 100ar', no.1 (exhibited)
H.Poulsen, Danske Skibsportraetmalere, Copenhagen, 1985, p.119 (published)
Martyn Gregory, A View from the East: Historical Pictures by Chinese and Western Artists 1750-1930, catalogue 81, London, 2005/2006, p.56, no.61
來源:倫敦古董商Martyn Gregory
展覽著錄: 北日德蘭藝術博物館,(丹麥)奧爾堡,"百年船舶畫像展",編號1(展覽)
H.Poulsen,《丹麥船舶像畫家》,哥本哈根,1985年,第119頁(出版)
Martyn Gregory,《A View from the East: Historical Pictures by Chinese and Western Artists 1750-1930, catalogue 81》,倫敦,2005/2006年,第56頁,編號61
Terkild Emmanuel Lønning (1762–1823) was a Danish marine painter and draftsman who became the official artist of the Royal Danish Navy. After working at sea in his youth, he was appointed in 1790 as a draftsman at Holmens Modelkammer, where he documented naval vessels and significacnt events. These included the frigate Freya's defence of a convoy in 1800. He also created ship portraits for organisations like the Asiatic Company. Working mainly in gouache, his detailed and dynamic works were often reproduced as engravings, contributing valuable visual records of Denmark's naval history during the Napoleonic era.
The inscription of the present work identifies the four ships at anchor as the naval vessel Infods Retten, commanded by Captain Gerner; the Danish East Indiaman Kongen af Danmark, and Disco; and the Swedish East Indiaman Findland. They are pictured at anchor off the island of Fayal, in the Azores (some 1,000 miles west of Lisbon) en route between Scandinavia and China.