A Scene in the First Voyage of the Shannon

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Marine painter Edwin Hayes was born in Bristol, where his father ran the Bristol and Glasgow Hotel and Tavern. He studied at the Kildare School of Art, Dublin, and also spent much of his youth at sea. Hayes exhibited his work, first at the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin (1842), and then at the British Institution, Royal Academy, Grosvenor Gallery, New Gallery, New Watercolour Society (becoming a member in 1863); and overseas in Chicago, St Louis, Paris and Brussels. He was elected a member of the Hibernian in 1871. In 1847 he married Ellen Briscoe, with whom he had eleven children, including painter Claude Hayes. In 1852 he moved to London, remaining there for the rest of his life. He died at his home in Westbourne Park at the age of 85.
Thomas Goldsworth Dutton, draughtsman and lithographer of shipping subjects, produced engravings after his own designs as well as after those of his contemporaries. His engravings include views of warships, yachts and yachting races, P&O steam ships, clippers and naval engagements. He was based in London and worked for Day & Son. His prints were usually available with or without hand-colouring. Dutton exhibited 15 sea pieces, mainly watercolours, at the Society of British Artists in Suffolk Street between 1858 and 1879. He lived at addresses in Wandsworth and Stockwell, London.

Places

Subjects

life belt, rowing boat, the 'Shannon', sea, wave, drowning, sailor (navy), ship, oar

Materials & Techniques

lithograph, colour lithograph

Artist

Edwin Hayes (1819 - 1904)
Thomas Goldsworth Dutton (c.1819 - 1891)

Title

A Scene in the First Voyage of the Shannon

Date

Medium

Colour lithograph

Acquisition

Purchased from the Royal United Services Institution, December 1964

GAC number

6807