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DOMINIC SERRES, R.A. (GASCONY 1719-1793 LONDON)
Naval vessels off the Rock of Gibraltar
signed with initials and inscribed 'D:S: Gibraltar' (lower left)
pencil, pen and ink and watercolour on paper watermarked with a fleur-dy-lys
12 x 1912 in. (30.5 x 49.5 cm.)
Exhibited
London, Martyn Gregory, British Watercolours and Drawings 1750-1900, cat. 95, May 2016, no. 63.
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A marine painter central to the development of the genre, Serres came to Britain as a prisoner of war in 1745, and made his home in England after his release. In 1786 he visited the western Mediterranean, including Gibraltar, and submitted a painting to the Royal Academy that year entitled View of Europa Point, Gibraltar, no. 161.

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