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Knell was one of the leading and most accomplished marine painters in nineteenth-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 ironclad, emphasizing the theme of changing times.
Title
Indiaman in the Thames
Date
possibly c.1864
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 122.2 x W 152.5 cm
Accession number
BHC1228
Work type
Painting
National Maritime Museum
Romney Road, Greenwich, London, Greater London SE10 9NF England
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