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Robert Cleveley (1747-1809)
Pushing out the boat near Shakespeare's Cliff, Dover
Signed lower right: R Cleveley Dover 1790
Pen and grey ink and grey wash and watercolour over pencil;
14.2 by 23.2 cm., 5 ½ by 9 in.
Provenance:
Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 9 November 1995, lot 91
Robert Cleveley was the son of John Cleveley (1712-1786), a shipwright and painter from Deptford. He was a clerk and purser in the Navy and first exhibited in 1767.
He was appointed Marine Draughtsman to the Duke of Clarence and Marine Painter to the Prince of Wales.