A Portrait Of The Clipper Blairgowrie
Stock No
114
2015
- £28,500.00
- €33,485 Euro
- $37,839 US Dollar
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A portrait of the clipper Blairgowrie, captained by Darke, passing Dover on her maiden voyage from London to Lyttleton, New Zealand in 1875. Signed and dated Tudgay 1875, painted in oil on canvas and within a fine period bird’s eye maple frame.
Built for James & George Thomson of Clydebank in 1875, Blairgowrie was recorded as an Iron sailing ship, registered at 1550 tons and considered in her time to be a clipper. She was built for Alexander Thomson (and Gray) of Glasgow, and launched on the 26 of March 1875. Her maiden voyage was commenced on the 29 May 1875 to Lyttelton, New Zealand arriving at her destination on the 22 August that same year.
o/s:w.57.5 inches x h.38.5 inches s/s:w.48.5 inches x h:29 inches
Taking from the Royal Museums Greenwich entry for their holding “The Barque ‘George Durkee’ Under Way” we learn that Frederick Tudgay (1841–1921) was a born in Limehouse, the youngest child of John Lashbrook Tudgay, ship painter. He is thought to have learnt his craft from his father with whom he sometimes collaborated; a painting of the ship ‘Ramsey’, painted around 1867, and now in the Manx Museum, bears his signature at his father’s address of 47 Three Colt Street, Limehouse. This suggests they first worked together and is confirmed by Post Office directory entries to 1872. That for 1869 lists him separately at no. 47 as a ‘tobacconist’; those of 1870–1872 jointly with his father as ‘Tudgay, John Lashbrook & Son, marine artists’.
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