Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17)Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (The State Hermitage Museum, 2007-10-23 - 2008-01-13)Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2007-07-11 - 2007-09-30)Masters of the Sea - British Marine Watercolors (Yale Center for British Art, 1987-06-10 - 1987-08-02)Masters of the Sea - British Marine Watercolors (National Maritime Museum, 2005-08-25 - 2005-10-25)
Publications:
Roger Quarm, Masters of the sea : British marine watercolours, , Phaidon, Oxford, UK, 1987, pp. 35, 94, no. 108, color pl. 16, ND2272 G7 Q73 (YCBA)Yale Center for British Art, Great British watercolors : from the Paul Mellon Collection, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2007, pp. 182-83, no. 80, ND1928 .Y35 2007 (LC)+ Oversize (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
Although Charles Bentley occasionally painted landscapes or architectural subjects, he chiefly worked on coastal or marine views. This watercolor of a three-masted naval vessel probably derives from one of his frequent sketching excursions on the Medway or the Solent. Bentley borrows Bonington’s method of rendering skies in sweeping dilute washes as well as the latter’s tendency to scratch out the paper’s surface to suggest the white foam of the waves and the bright white canvas of the jib at the ship’s prow. Gallery label for Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17)