40½ x 50 signed P.Monamy Pinxt. Buckingham Palace. In 1818 this painting was in Kensington Palace. ROYAL OCCASIONS Calm Waters A "Royal Occasion", signed. 29½ x 44¾. Bought from Stair & Andrews 1933 Exhibited at the RA, 1934. Reproduced in The Illustrated London News, 6 Jan 1934. Appears to be the same as the above painting. Auctioned 15th July 1998 Reproduced in Dictionary of British 18th Century Painters, Waterhouse, 1981 In 1981 this painting was hanging in one of the City Livery Halls. Signed. A "Royal Occasion", signed and dated 1724. 39 x 60. Christie's, 24 May 1968, lot 42. This is not the painting reproduced in Cockett, p.52 Société Jersiaise This is the painting reproduced in Cockett, p.52. Slightly unconvincing. This painting seems rather too rococo for Monamy. I have yet to come across another canvas in which the clouds and smoke billow with this extravagant abandon, or in which the flags and sails are quite so curvaceous; nor does the palette seem right. Difficult to suggest another artist for attribution, however. 38 x 47. starboard quarter views       port quarter views       click The close relationship between A, B, and C is examined here. Do these pictures represent the same "occasion"? Do they portray the same yacht?   Are they by the same hand? royal occasions:     starboard quarters     port quarters royal sovereign composition types:     one     two     relatively tall/narrow royal sovereign composition types:     a. starboard     b. port     broad royal occasions:     calm waters     fresh winds thomas leemans calms, calms, calms     monamy site index top © Charles Harrison Wallace 2003, 2007 all rights reserved