Dominic Serres, 1722–1793, French, active in Britain (from the 1750s)
Title:
Captain William Locker
Date:
1769
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
14 1/2 × 12 inches (36.8 × 30.5 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on the back of lining canvas in black paint: "W[m] Locker Esq | Cap[t] of His Majestys | Ship the Queen | done on Board Her | 1769 By D[k] Serres | 1769"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.565
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
telescope | sailing | water | ruffle | engageantes | window | sea | portrait | man | hat | tricorne | ship | navy | cravat | uniform | frigate | captain (military officer) | officer (military officer) | cabin (vehicle space) | marine art
Currently On View:
On view
Exhibition History:
In a New Light: 500 Years of British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-04-01 - 2026-01-30)Spreading Canvas - Eighteenth - Century British Marine Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-09-09 - 2016-12-04)Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20)
Publications:
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 200-201, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)English pictures prints and drawings, c. 1650 - c. 1950 , Christie's, London, November 22nd, 1963, p. 43, lot no. 174, Sales Catalogues (YCBA)Eleanor Hughes, Spreading Canvas : Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2016, p. 248, cat. 109, ND 1373.G74 S67 2016 (YCBA)Painting in England 1700-1850 from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, The Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition 1964-65., , Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, 1964, p. 40 (v.1), no. 145, N5220.M45 R69 1964 (YCBA)Yale University Art Gallery, Painting in England, 1700-1850, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon : [exhibition at] Yale University Art Gallery, April 15-June 20, 1965, , vol. 1, W. Clowes and sons, New Haven, 1965, p. 43 (v.1), no. 161, ND466 Y35 (YCBA)
Provenance:
Commissioned by William Locker (1731-1800) from the artist, Dominic Serres (1722-1793);...; purchased by Paul Mellon (1907-1999) through Colnaghi, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, November 22, 1963 (lot 174, “Portrait of William Locker, Captain of H.M.S. The Queen”) [a]; by whom given to the Yale Center for British Art, 1981 Citation: --- [a] Christie, Manson & Woods. November 22, 1963