John Cleveley the Elder (1712-1777) Two 32-gun Frigates receiving their Captains Oil on canvas Signed and dated J. Cleveley Pinx/1768 lower left 88 x 117 cm. (35 x 46 1/2 in) Provenance: Thought to be acquired by Junius S. Morgan Jr., Locust Valley, New York Thence by descent to John Pierpont Morgan II Sale. Sotheby's New York, Important Old Master Paintings, 27th January 2006, lot 202 (sold for 96,000 USD incl. premium) Mallett, London Private collection, Europe; from whom purchased by Mallett Born at Southwark on the southern side of the River Thames in London. John Cleveley was the son of a joiner. He started his working life apprenticed to another joiner in 1726, and worked as a young man in the Royal Dockyard at Deptford - as did his twin sons, John the Younger (1747-86) and Robert (1747-1809) whose paintings are sometimes confused with their father's. His third son, James, was ship's carpenter on the Resolution during Cook's last Pacific voyage between 1776 and 1780. Through his work in the dockyards, Cleveley gained an intimate knowledge of contemporary ships and their equipment, and likely was influenced by the dockyard painters who decorated the sides of ships. From the late 1740s he painted a series of ship-launches and dockyard scenes at Deptford, where he spent most of his life and where he died, maintaining his career as a craftsman throughout his life. He also established himself as a painter of ship-portraits and other maritime scenes, including a few commissions showing naval engagements. The ships portrayed in the present painting are 32-gun frigates (5th rates). They took their design from the French ship 'The Renomme' which had been captured in 1747, and which started a trend in cruiser design.
John Cleveley the Elder (1712-1777) Two 32-gun Frigates receiving their Captains Oil on canvas Signed and dated J. Cleveley Pinx/1768 lower left 88 x 117 cm. (35 x 46 1/2 in) Provenance: Thought to be acquired by Junius S. Morgan Jr., Locust Valley, New York Thence by descent to John Pierpont Morgan II Sale. Sotheby's New York, Important Old Master Paintings, 27th January 2006, lot 202 (sold for 96,000 USD incl. premium) Mallett, London Private collection, Europe; from whom purchased by Mallett Born at Southwark on the southern side of the River Thames in London. John Cleveley was the son of a joiner. He started his working life apprenticed to another joiner in 1726, and worked as a young man in the Royal Dockyard at Deptford - as did his twin sons, John the Younger (1747-86) and Robert (1747-1809) whose paintings are sometimes confused with their father's. His third son, James, was ship's carpenter on the Resolution during Cook's last Pacific voyage between 1776 and 1780. Through his work in the dockyards, Cleveley gained an intimate knowledge of contemporary ships and their equipment, and likely was influenced by the dockyard painters who decorated the sides of ships. From the late 1740s he painted a series of ship-launches and dockyard scenes at Deptford, where he spent most of his life and where he died, maintaining his career as a craftsman throughout his life. He also established himself as a painter of ship-portraits and other maritime scenes, including a few commissions showing naval engagements. The ships portrayed in the present painting are 32-gun frigates (5th rates). They took their design from the French ship 'The Renomme' which had been captured in 1747, and which started a trend in cruiser design.
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