Morning After a Heavy Gale

Morning After a Heavy Gale
ArtistEdward William Cooke
Year1857
TypeOil on canvas, maritime painting
Dimensions94.6 cm × 126.3 cm (37.2 in × 49.7 in)
LocationDallas Museum of Art, Dallas

Morning After a Heavy Gale is an oil painting by the British artist Edward William Cooke, from 1857. A seascape, it depicts the morning after a heavy storm, depicting the pilot boat and lifeboat of Ramsgate, in Kent, going to the assistance of an East Indiaman floundering in the Goodwin Sands, in the English Channel.[1]

Cooke was a follower although never a formal pupil of the marine painter Clarkson Frederick Stanfield.[2][3] The painting was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1857 at the National Gallery in London. Today it is in the Dallas Museum of Art.[4]

References

  1. ^ Payne p.158
  2. ^ Van der Merwe & Took p.172
  3. ^ Isham p.276
  4. ^ "Dallas Museum of Art".

Bibliography

  • Isham, Howard F. Image of the Sea: Oceanic Consciousness in the Romantic Century. Peter Lang, 2004.
  • Payne, Christiana. Where the Sea Meets the Land: Artists on the Coast in Nineteenth-century Britain. Sansom, 2007.
  • Van der Merwe, Pieter & Took, Roger. The Spectacular Career of Clarkson Stanfield. Tyne and Wear County Council Museums, 1979.