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441. HENRY CLIFFORD (1821-1905). 'THE S.S. GREAT EASTERN, 1873'.

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HENRY CLIFFORD (1821-1905). 'THE S.S. GREAT EASTERN, 1873'.
441. 4831655. HENRY CLIFFORD (1821-1905). 'THE S.S. GREAT EASTERN, 1873'.

Description

Signed, titled & dated, oil on board, 18.5cm x 29cm (27cm x 33cm including frame).

*Henry Clifford was born in 1821 in Hull, the son of corn merchant William Clifford. Despite Henry’s artistic ambitions, his father encouraged him to pursue a more practical trade, and in 1838 he took up an engineering apprenticeship in Aberdeen, after a career in ship building he took up work with the Atlantic Telegraph Company and Telcon laying the first telegraph cables across the Atlantic Ocean. Henry Clifford would establish himself as a successful and well-respected engineer in a burgeoning industry. However, he still found a way to indulge his love of art, and painted several maritime scenes of the cable-laying expeditions he was involved in.

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Condition

Surface dirt & marks, some cracking to board.

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441. 4831655. HENRY CLIFFORD (1821-1905). 'THE S.S. GREAT EASTERN, 1873'.

Description

Signed, titled & dated, oil on board, 18.5cm x 29cm (27cm x 33cm including frame).

*Henry Clifford was born in 1821 in Hull, the son of corn merchant William Clifford. Despite Henry’s artistic ambitions, his father encouraged him to pursue a more practical trade, and in 1838 he took up an engineering apprenticeship in Aberdeen, after a career in ship building he took up work with the Atlantic Telegraph Company and Telcon laying the first telegraph cables across the Atlantic Ocean. Henry Clifford would establish himself as a successful and well-respected engineer in a burgeoning industry. However, he still found a way to indulge his love of art, and painted several maritime scenes of the cable-laying expeditions he was involved in.

Further reading on Clifford's life here.

Condition

Surface dirt & marks, some cracking to board.

Resale right

No

Sale

June Fine Art Sale

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441

June Fine Art Sale

Lawrences Auctioneers present their June Fine Art Sale, including silver, jewellery, pictures, furniture and decorative arts.

The English silver includes pieces from a Charles II silver trefid spoon and a large William III lidded tankard to Hester Bateman cream jugs and sugar baskets, George II candlesticks, and complete canteens and tea services by Mappin & Webb. Also included is Continental and Irish silver.

The jewellery section features diamond, ruby, sapphire and emerald pieces and wristwatches include Rolex, Omega, IWC, Breitling, Girard-Perregaux and Tudor.

Pictures include works by Nathaniel Dance-Holland, Gerald Leslie Brockhurst RA, Gillian Ayres CBE RA, S.J. Lamorna Birch RA, John Piper CH and Eugène Boudin, with portraits, landscapes and seascapes spanning the 17th to 20th centuries. There are also portrait miniatures attributed to Andrew Plimer and Robert Thorburn ARA.

The furniture section features good Georgian and Regency pieces, and a strong group of Cotswold School work by Gordon Russell, Ernest Gimson and Russell & Son.

The sale closes with ceramics and Asian works of art, including a collection of Moorcroft from early Macintyre Florian pieces to later studio vases, Minton art pottery, Chinese and Japanese porcelain, and Chinese jade snuff bottles.

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