designer, engraver, date, unrecorded: but almost certainly after sailmaker: see oil painting below
VIEWS OF DOVER by Sailmaker is said never to have signed his work. Attributions are based on the inscriptions attached to prints after his paintings. I have persuaded myself, however, that his truly outsize flags, flying from various buildings, are as good as a signature where they appear. This detail, with box, from the painting above it, attributed to two different painters, seems to hover between Sailmaker and Knyff. Three details top and left: Dover Castle. Bottom right: Portsmouth. The linked details marked S and M, are Sheerness, with Monamy following Sailmaker, and slightly reducing the flag size. The lower centre detail is a curiosity. See here for a discussion of the oddities connected with this image. The two paintings by, or attributed to, Monamy feature Dover harbour, not the castle. sheerness mail cichw-0@cichw.net
Sailmaker, Knyff, Monamy, S & N Buck, Brooking, Swaine, Mellish, Serres, Luny, Turner
Attributed to Sailmaker; 35 x 71; Christie's 12 May 1967
Attributed to Jacob Knyff; 35 x 71; See Cockett: Early Sea Painters, p.44
print inscribed sailmaker
monamy
monamy ?
6½ x 7½; painter & mezzotinter unknown: seems later than either monamy or kirkall; almost certainly intended for dover
painting at right attributed to swaine
left detail of print heading this page, showing town buildings
Samuel and Nathaniel Buck, 1739, coloured print
Brooking: see Joel, p.153
Brooking, see Joel, p.152
Thomas Mellish, 21½ x 39½, 1750 (?), Parker Gallery 1993
two views by francis swaine
Description from Naval Prints, Frank T.Sabin, 1934-5.
Luny
Luny ?
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement and Instruction, Sept 30, 1837
J.M.W.Turner. Engraving from The Harbours of England, 1895. Turner's harbours follow Sailmaker's harbours.
dover castle today
jacob knyff isaac sailmaker
portchester ? more oddities
a painting factory
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