A SECOND CONFERENCE PAPER Slides Accompanying Presentation with annotations Slide 1 Slides 2 & 3 Conversation Piece The figures in this painting are now attributed to Gawen Hamilton, 1697 (?) to 1737 Slide 4: from Vertue's notebook 1749 Errors in Red ordinary painting: this term has been repeatedly misinterpreted in much subsequent comment Slide 5 Slide: Bute Sale Slide 6 “Sea piece … presented to the Painter’s Company …1726” George Vertue, Notebooks, 1727 “.......destroyed in World War II” E.H.H.Archibald, 1980 --- Stephen Deuchar, 1996 Painter-Stainer’s Hall, 2003 Slide 7 "The finest instance of ..... an unenquiring mind" “What we should expect from a former house-painter who had never experienced the suspense, the terrors, the immensities of deep sea roving.” E.K.Chatterton 1928 Slide 8 "Little Variety" Slide 9 “most of his career was devoted to careful imitations of van de Velde’s style” Grove Dictionary of Art 1996 Slide 10 "He is reputed to have excelled in calms" Samuel Redgrave, 1878 “His chief fault is a total lack of accent; all is harmonious, even tender” Colonel M.H.Grant, 1926 Slides 11, 13 The Signal to Anchor subject? date ? ”Arrival of the Queen of Portugal 24 Sept 1708” RA Exhibition 1934 -- F.B.Cockett 2000 -- NMM website 2004 George I Rex 1714-1727 Slide 12 from the National Maritime Museum website, November 2004 Slides 14, 15, 16 "House Painting" --- Marine Paintings Wall-to-Wall mid 18th century: interior by Marcellus Laroon Left: a painting by Monamy. Right: wall decorations probably by Scott, following Monamy. Laroon was one of Scott's circle Marine Paintings mid 18th century: interior by Zoffany Centre: van de Capelle?       Right, and possibly left: Monamy ? Marine Paintings Lower left: Marcellus Laroon c 1730       Right: J.M.W.Turner 1818 Slides 17-20 “he found his subjects … in shipping in the Thames” Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Art 1984 “His colour … was somewhat tame and ineffective” DNB 1894 2005 conference paper text monamy website index top © Charles Harrison Wallace 2005 all rights reserved mail cichw-0@cichw.net