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William Adolphus Knell: Indiaman in the Thames  wikidata:Q50904216 reasonator:Q50904216
Artist
William Adolphus Knell  (1802–1875)  wikidata:Q7940855
 
Alternative names
Knell
Description British painter, illustrator, drawer, artist and watercolorist
Date of birth/death 1801 / 1805 / 1802 Edit this at Wikidata 10 July 1875 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Carisbrooke Kentish Town
Work location
London; Bristol; Netherlands (1850); Belgium; France; Kingdom of the Netherlands Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q7940855
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Title
Indiaman in the Thames Edit this at Wikidata
title QS:P1476,en:"Indiaman in the Thames Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Len,"Indiaman in the Thames Edit this at Wikidata"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description
English: Indiaman in the Thames

Knell was one of the leading and most accomplished marine painters in 19th-century Britain, with paintings in the Royal Collection. This grandly ambitious and dramatic canvas demonstrates why. It shows a battered and storm-damaged Indiaman, just returned from the East into the Thames, against a glowing golden sky from which the clouds are now receding. Like Henry O’Neil’s ‘The Parting Cheer’ (ZBA4022), it implicitly points to the larger imperial context of maritime Victorian Britain, and the uncertainties and anxieties associated with it.

The two vessels bow-on in the right distance are both Royal Naval ships, one traditional - a sailing three-decker - and the other apparently a new steam-assisted iron-clad, emphasizing the theme of changing times. The picture may be one that Knell exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1864 (no.148), entitled 'On the Medway - bringing a disabled ship into port', and if so the location is likely to be the naval anchorage off the Nore sands looking west, with the mouth of the Medway concealed behind the damaged Indiaman.

Indiamen in the Thames
Date possibly circa 1864
Medium oil on canvas Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions Painting: 1222 x 1525 mm; Frame: 1630 mm x 1950 mm x 150 mm
institution QS:P195,Q7374509
Current location
Royal Museums Greenwich
Accession number
BHC1228
References
Source/Photographer http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/12719
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Acquisition Number: 1949-705
id number: BHC1228
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Oil paintings

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