Claude Joseph Vernet

Provenance

Commissioned in February 1745 by William Drake (1723-1796), later M.P., and by descent at Shardeloes, Buckinghamshire to the following
Captain Thomas Tyrwhitt-Drake (1783-1852)
The Tyrwhitt-Drake Settlement
sale Christie’s, London, 25 July 1952, nr. 158, as a pair with A Rocky River Scene (800 gns. to Agnews, with lot 157, a second pair of Vernets)
with Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, where acquired by the following
Sir Brian McGrath (1925-2016), and by inheritance to the present owner
sale Christie's, London, Property of a Gentleman, 5 July 2018, nr. 52

Other works by Claude-Joseph Vernet

View of Naples and Vesuvius
1748

A shipwreck with figures coming ashore
1648

A cove on a rocky Mediterranean coast, with small vessels and fishermen

The waterfalls of Tivoli with the villa of Meacenas
c. 1740-50

The Shipwreck
1772