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A Picture Manufactory?
A Painting School?
Left, varied images of shipping, bound together into a booklet. Whatever its ostensible aim, it might well have served as a practical pattern book for marine painters. Similar pages, from the same book, below. |
The booklet was probably produced after Monamy's death, or perhaps in about his last decade. At least one of its images is replicated from one of the Kirkall mezzotints after Monamy. The date of these mezzotints is uncertain, but one of them is said to represent the storm of 20th December 1736. Kirkall died in 1742. |
The pictures from the booklet at the top of this page may seem familiar to anyone who knows this site. Reverse replications from Thomas Baston's unimportant print.
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Click picture tile outlined in green below for full image. By thinking of the Monamy studio, or a later workshop such as Swaine must also have run, as a painting factory with an assembly line, these little pictures can be envisioned as a kind of sampler of images which the artist, either on his own or with one or two assistants, re-shuffled and combined in different compositions to produce a series of varied finished paintings. Any other drawings or prints could of course also have been used in the same way, and it is clear that Monamy did base many of his canvases on prints and drawings from a very wide variety of different sources. This may be especially true of his calms. For more on prints and drawings related to Monamy's calms, see here. |
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