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Brooking, Charles, 1723–1759
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West, Benjamin, 1738–1820
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18th century
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canvas
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oil paint
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Beachy Head
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East Sussex
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England
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Exhibition History
Behold the Sea (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-06-14 - 2003-09-07)
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Spreading Canvas - Eighteenth - Century British Marine Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-09-09 - 2016-12-04)
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Charles Brooking, 1723–1759
English Ships Under Sail in a Very Light Breeze
ca. 1752
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Charles Brooking, 1723–1759
Ship wrecked on a rocky coast
between 1747 and 1750
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Benjamin West, 1738–1820
A Squall off a Mountainous Coast
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